Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto. McConaughey won an Oscar for his portrayal of Ron Woodroof, a real-life AIDS patient who in the '80s formed a "club" of people who found their own experimental treatments for the disease, which was then new and not well understood. Leto won an Oscar for his portrayal of Rayon, a transsexual who also had AIDS and who went into business with Woodroof supplying non-FDA approved drugs to AIDS patients. Garner is also good as a compassionate doctor who sees that AZT is not working on her patients and befriends Woodroof. This movie was nominated for Best Picture, but of course didn't win, losing to "Twelve Years a Slave." This film was a little too gritty for me to say that I enjoyed it, but after watching it I can say that it is a good movie, and worth seeing. (English subtitles for the hearing-impaired are available on the disc.) Grade: B+