The Dallas Buyers Club ***

Seen in theater.  Released 2013.
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.
Written by  Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack
With  Matthew McConaughey,  Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Steve Zahn, Denis O'Hare, Kevin Rankin, Dallas Roberts

McConaughy is becoming one of my favorite actors.  I don't know what happened, but suddenly he's choosing good parts and not always playing the good looking, romantic lead in rom-coms.

It's hard to pick out one thinkg that I like about the film.  It so solid all the way around.  Perhaps my favorite part is the role that McCaughey plays, an irresponsible, wominizing, homophobic rodeo dude, tough guy.  He turns out to have a heart in the end, yet keeping his gruff, macho image complete.  He even threatens an ex-friend to say hi to his new transsexual friend, or he would beat the crap out of him, and he almost does.

So the main character, Ron Woodroof, finds that he has AIDS.  When he learns that he can't get the drugs available to him that would help him, he takes things into his own hands and goes into the illegal business of passing out these drugs by setting up "Buyers Clubs" which is a temporary way for him stay in business.  He ends up championing and heralding the  better AIDS health care and medicine.   The story stars to delve into the politics of medicine and businesses connections with the pharmaceutical companies.  Not as dry as it sounds. Based on a true story. Here's a trailer of course.