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The Making of Drugstore Cowboy (1999)

ALL 10/26/1999 (en) Documentary 28 Min
  • Release
    10/26/1999
  • Production
    Artisan Entertainment, Avenue Pictures
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    The Making of Drugstore Cowboy
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

Portland, 1988. Filmmaker Gus Van Sant shoots Drugstore Cowboy, the project that will bring he and his collaborators a formidable burst of mainstream attention. Starring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, and Heather Graham, the film follows a roving quartet of drug addicts — and, consequently, drug thieves, especially from the businesses of the title — who wash up in Portland's then-gritty Pearl District. A death among their own spooks the leader of the pack into trying to clean up, and an encounter with a sepulchral junkie priest does its part to convince him further. Or maybe we should call him a Junkie priest, portrayed as he is by a controversial cameo from writer William S. Burroughs. "I'm going back to the old days," Burroughs says of his role early in the above documentary on the making of Drugstore Cowboy. "The old days when they used to give people morphine in jail. The old days before the methadone programs."

  1. John Campbell

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Laurie Parker

    Producer



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The Making of Drugstore Cowboy (1999) 28 Min

ALL 10/26/1999 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 10/26/1999
  • Production
    Artisan Entertainment, Avenue Pictures
  • Original title The Making of Drugstore Cowboy
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Portland, 1988. Filmmaker Gus Van Sant shoots Drugstore Cowboy, the project that will bring he and his collaborators a formidable burst of mainstream attention. Starring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, and Heather Graham, the film follows a roving quartet of drug addicts — and, consequently, drug thieves, especially from the businesses of the title — who wash up in Portland's then-gritty Pearl District. A death among their own spooks the leader of the pack into trying to clean up, and an encounter with a sepulchral junkie priest does its part to convince him further. Or maybe we should call him a Junkie priest, portrayed as he is by a controversial cameo from writer William S. Burroughs. "I'm going back to the old days," Burroughs says of his role early in the above documentary on the making of Drugstore Cowboy. "The old days when they used to give people morphine in jail. The old days before the methadone programs."

  1. John Campbell

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Carl Vandervoort

    Editor

  4. Laurie Parker

    Producer



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