Drugstore Cowboy
Sooner or later, someone will pay the price.
A melancholic portrait of addiction and its corrosive effects on a tight-knit group of drug thieves in 1970s Portland, balancing dark realism with moments of human connection and tentative redemption.
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. But neither fun nor luck last forever.
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