Dallas Buyers Club (film)
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| Directed by | Jean-Marc Vallée |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Yves Bélanger |
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John Mac McMurphy Martin Pensa |
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| Distributed by | Focus Features |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $55.2 million |
| Academy Awards record | |
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| 1. Best Actor (Matthew McConaughey) | |
| 2. Best Supporting Actor (Jared Leto) | |
| 3. Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews) | |
| Golden Globe Awards record | |
| 1. Best Actor - In a Motion Picture - Drama (Matthew McConaughey) | |
| 2. Best Supporting Actor - In a Motion Picture (Jared Leto) | |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards record | |
| 1. Best Male Actor in a Leading Role (Matthew McConaughey) | |
| 2. Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Jared Leto) | |
Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film, co-written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof, an AIDS patient diagnosed in the mid 1980s when HIV/AIDS treatments were under-researched, while the disease was not understood and highly stigmatized. As part of the experimental AIDS treatment movement, he smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas for treating his symptoms, and distributed them to fellow people with AIDS by establishing the "Dallas Buyers Club" while facing opposition from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Two fictional supporting characters, Dr. Eve Saks (Jennifer Garner), and Rayon (Jared Leto), were composite roles created from the writer's interviews with transgender AIDS patients, activists, and doctors.
Screenwriter Borten interviewed Woodroof in 1992 and wrote the script, which he polished with writer Wallack in 2000, and then sold to producer Robbie Brenner. Several other actors, directors, and producers who were attached at various times to the development of the film left the project. Universal Pictures also tried to make the film, but did not. A couple of screenwriters wrote drafts that were rejected. In 2009, producer Brenner involved Matthew McConaughey, because of his Texas origins, the same as Woodroof's. Brenner selected the first draft, written by Borten and Wallack, for the film, and then Vallée was set to direct the film. Principal photography began on November 11, 2012, in New Orleans, Louisiana, continuing for 25 days of filming, which also included shooting in Baton Rouge. Brenner and Rachel Winter co-produced the film. The official soundtrack album was featured by various artists, and was released digitally on October 29, 2013, by the Relativity Music Group.
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