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Drugstore Cowboy (soundtrack)

Drugstore Cowboy
DrugstoreCowboyposter.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Produced by Karen Murphy
Cary Brokaw
Nick Wechsler
Written by Gus Van Sant
Daniel Yost
Based on Drugstore Cowboy
by James Fogle
Starring
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography Robert Yeoman
Edited by Mary Bauer
Curtiss Clayton
Distributed by International Video Entertainment
Avenue Pictures
Release date
  • October 6, 1989 (1989-10-06) (United States)
Running time
102 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2.5 million
Box office $4.7 million
Drugstore Cowboy
Soundtrack album by Elliot Goldenthal
Released 1989
Genre Avant-garde
Rock
Electronic
Progressive
Length 36:14
Label Novus 3077-2-N13;
RCA 3077-2-N
Producer Elliot Goldenthal
Elliot Goldenthal chronology
Blank Generation
(1980)Blank Generation1980
Drugstore Cowboy
(1989)
Pet Sematary
(1989)Pet Sematary1989

Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant. Written by Van Sant and Daniel Yost, and based on an autobiographical novel by James Fogle, the film stars Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham and William S. Burroughs. It was Van Sant's second film as director.

At the time the film was made, the source novel by Fogle was unpublished. It was later published in 1990, by which time Fogle had been released from prison. Fogle, like the characters in his story, was a long-time drug user and dealer.

The film was a critical success and currently holds a rare 100% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 8/10 based on 27 reviews.

Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon) is the leader of a crew of drug addicts consisting of him, his wife, Dianne (Kelly Lynch), his best friend, Rick (James LeGros), and Rick's girlfriend, a teenager named Nadine (Heather Graham). Together, they travel across the U.S. Pacific Northwest in 1971, supporting their drug habits by robbing pharmacies and hospitals.

After successfully robbing a Portland, Oregon pharmacy, they go straight home to use the drugs they just stole. During the process of getting high, a local low-life named David (Max Perlich) visits the group in search of hard-to-find dilaudid. Bob lies and says they have none but offers to trade him morphine for speed instead. David initially declines, but Bob talks him into trading anyway. After David leaves, the police bust down their door. The lead detective Gentry (James Remar) correctly assumes it was their group that has just committed the pharmacy robbery he's investigating. The police are unable to find the drugs because the group wisely buried them outside. However, in the process of searching, the police completely trash the group's house.


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