Midnight Cowboy (Criterion Collection)

Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles. This groundbreaking masterpiece featured brilliant, searing performances by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as two small-time hustlers whose powerful friendship transcends the gritty realities of big-city life and their own unfulfilled dreams. Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy. This amazing Criterion Collection digital restoration is loaded with extras, including a remastered 5.1 surround soundtrack, audio commentary from 1991 with director John Schlesinger, a 1990 documentary by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann, interviews with Voight and Schlesinger, an essay by film critic Mark Harris and much more on 2 DVDs. 1969/color/113 min/R/widescreen.