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* NonActorVehicle: For Creator/WilliamSBurroughs, who has a small but memorable cameo as Tom the Priest.
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* NonActorVehicle: For Creator/WilliamSBurroughs, who has a small but memorable cameo and highly publicized role in the film as Tom the Priest.
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* NonActorVehicle: For Creator/WilliamSBurroughs, who has a small but memorable cameo as Tom the Priest.
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* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Bob is telling the story of why he won't allow anyone to even ''talk'' about dogs--he and Dianne once had a pet dog, and their faithful dog led the cops to their house. As he finishes, the television starts showing dog commercials on every channel.
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* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Bob is telling the story of why he won't allow anyone to even ''talk'' about dogs--he and Dianne once had a pet dog, and their faithful dog led the cops to their house. As he finishes, the television starts showing dog commercials on every channel.channel.
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* WeNeedADistraction: One of the gang's stock operations, in which Annie pretends to have an epileptic fit, allowing Bob to jump behind the counter and steal pills while the pharmacist is out front.
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* WeNeedADistraction: One of the gang's stock operations, in which Annie Nadine pretends to have an epileptic fit, allowing Bob to jump behind the counter and steal pills while the pharmacist is out front.
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* TheFellowshipHasEnded: After Nadine dies and Bob decides to get clean, which causes Dianne to leave him. Later Dianne visits once more and tells Bob that she's Rick's woman now and Rick has his own crew.
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* TheFellowshipHasEnded: After Nadine dies [[spoiler:dies]] and Bob decides to get clean, [[spoiler:get clean]], which causes Dianne to leave him. [[spoiler:leave him]]. Later Dianne visits once more and tells Bob that she's Rick's woman [[spoiler:Rick's woman]] now and Rick has [[spoiler:has his own crew.crew]].
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* CowardlyLion: Bob is pretty open about his neurosis and his reliance on drugs to keep the stresses of world away from him. The people around him are still awed by the acts of magnificent bastardry he performs out of sheer panic.
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* CowardlyLion: Bob is pretty open about his neurosis neuroses and his reliance on drugs to keep the stresses of world away from him. The people around him are still awed by the acts of magnificent bastardry he performs out of sheer panic.
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* ChekhovsGunman: David, seen early in the film as the ButtMonkey neighbor who goes to Bob looking to score some dope. He comes back at the end of the movie, having moved up a bit in the drug-pushing world, and shoots Bob.
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* ChekhovsGunman: David, seen early in the film as the ButtMonkey neighbor who goes to Bob looking to score some dope. He comes back at the end of the movie, having moved up a bit in the drug-pushing world, and [[spoiler:and shoots Bob.Bob]].
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''Drugstore Cowboy'' is a 1989 film directed by Creator/GusVanSant.
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''Drugstore Cowboy'' is a 1989 film directed by Creator/GusVanSant.
Creator/GusVanSant and based on the book by Creator/JamesFogle.
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* DrugsAreBad: If you do drugs you may end up dead on the floor of a fleabag hotel. If you do drugs, you might find yourself having to bury the body of your drug companion, after you find her dead on the floor of a fleabag hotel.
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* DrugsAreBad: If you do drugs you may end up dead on the floor of a fleabag hotel. If you do drugs, you You might also find yourself having to bury the body of your drug companion, after you find her dead on the floor of a fleabag hotel.
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* AnswerCut: Gentry has come to the house on a raid, but his squad can't find the drugs--Dianne buried them in the backyard. Gentry says to the gang, "You can just tell us where the drugs are and save yourself a lot of trouble. Or you can sit there with your months shut and we tear this place apart board by board. So what's it gonna be?" Cut to the next morning, with the gang relaxing in a house that's been trashed after Gentry's squad tore it up board by board.
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* AnswerCut: Gentry has come to the house on a raid, but his squad can't find the drugs--Dianne buried them in the backyard. Gentry says to the gang, "You can just tell us where the drugs are and save yourself a lot of trouble. Or you can sit there with your months mouths shut and we tear this place apart board by board. So what's it gonna be?" Cut to the next morning, with the gang relaxing in a house that's been trashed after Gentry's squad tore it up board by board.
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* DisposingOfABody: What's bad? Having to get rid of a body of one of your drug buddies after she overdoses in a hotel. What's worse than that? Being told that you have to vacate the room while it's reserved, while the dead body is still in the room. What's worse than that? When the room is reserved for ''a sheriff's convention'' and you have to get the dead body out of the room while the whole hotel is crawling with cops. Luckily, Bob has a garment bag.
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* DisposingOfABody: What's bad? Having to get rid of a body of one of your drug buddies after she overdoses in a hotel. What's worse than that? Being told that you have to vacate the room while because it's reserved, while the dead body is still in the room. What's worse than that? When the room is reserved for ''a sheriff's convention'' and you have to get the dead body out of the room while the whole hotel is crawling with cops. Luckily, Bob has a garment bag.
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* PokeInTheThirdEye: Bob knows the cops are watching him. So he sends in a fake tip to Gentry to the effect that Bob gets his drugs via a string hung between his apartment and the neighbor's across the street. Bob then tells his neighbor that he saw somebody peeing in on the neighbor's daughter. This backfires to a certain extent when the neighbor comes out with a shotgun and shoots the cop.
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* PokeInTheThirdEye: Bob knows the cops are watching him. So he sends in a fake tip to Gentry to the effect that Bob gets his drugs via a string hung between his apartment and the neighbor's across the street. Bob then tells his neighbor that he saw somebody peeing peeping in on the neighbor's daughter. This backfires to a certain extent when the neighbor comes out with a shotgun and shoots the cop.
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* AnswerCut: Gentry has come to the house on a raid, but his squad can't find the drugs--Dianne buried them in the backyard. Gentry says to the gang, "You can just ell us where the drugs are and save yourself a lot of trouble. Or you can sit there with your months shut and we tear this place apart board by board. So what's it gonna be?" Cut to the next morning, with the gang relaxing in a house that's been trashed after Gentry's squad tore it up board by board.
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* AnswerCut: Gentry has come to the house on a raid, but his squad can't find the drugs--Dianne buried them in the backyard. Gentry says to the gang, "You can just ell tell us where the drugs are and save yourself a lot of trouble. Or you can sit there with your months shut and we tear this place apart board by board. So what's it gonna be?" Cut to the next morning, with the gang relaxing in a house that's been trashed after Gentry's squad tore it up board by board.
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* TheFellowshipHasEnded: After Nadine dies and Bob decides to get clean, which causes Nadine to leave him. Later Nadine visits once more and tells Bob that she's Rick's woman now and Rick has his own crew.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: As the gang delights in finding out that part of their pharmacy score was a very valuable bottle of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydromorphone Dilaudid]], Bob warns them to be careful with it, saying "That stuff can kill you." Sure enough, Annie later overdoses on the Dilaudid.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: As the gang delights in finding out that part of their pharmacy score was a very valuable bottle of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydromorphone Dilaudid]], Bob warns them to be careful with it, saying "That stuff can kill you." Sure enough, Annie Nadine later overdoses on the Dilaudid.
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* CowardlyLion: Bob is pretty open about his neurosis and his reliance on drugs to keep the stresses of world away from him. The people around him are still awed by the acts of magnificent bastardry he performs out of sheer panic.
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-> "Well, to begin with, nobody, and I mean nobody, can talk a junkie out of using. You can talk to 'em for years but sooner or later they're gonna get ahold of something. Maybe it's not dope. Maybe it's booze, maybe it's glue, maybe it's gasoline. Maybe it's a gunshot to the head. But something. Something to relieve the pressures of their everyday life, like having to tie their shoes."
''Drugstore Cowboy'' is a 1989 film directed by Creator/GusVanSant.
The film is set in UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} in 1971. Bob (Creator/MattDillon) is a dope addict and the head of a little gang of dope addicts that includes his wife Dianne (Creator/KellyLynch), Bob's buddy Rick (James [=LeGros=]), and Rick's girlfriend Nadine (19-year-old Creator/HeatherGraham in her StarMakingRole). Bob specializes in robbing drugstores. Sometimes they create a distraction in which Annie fakes a seizure in the front of the pharmacy while Bob ransacks the pill drawers. Sometimes they simply climb through open windows.
Bob's little gang is closely monitored by an anti-drug unit led by a cop named Gentry (Creator/JamesRemar). One day Bob pulls a prank on a police surveillance team that winds up getting a cop shot. The gang decides to leave town for a while, which provides them with a chance to execute one of Bob's pet ideas, namely, robbing a hospital. Things go awry.
Creator/WilliamSBurroughs pops up near the end as Tom, another drug addict living in the same flophouse hotel as Bob.
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* AllLowercaseLetters: The opening titles are presented this way.
* AndStarring: "And William S. Burroughs as Tom the ex-priest."
* AnswerCut: Gentry has come to the house on a raid, but his squad can't find the drugs--Dianne buried them in the backyard. Gentry says to the gang, "You can just ell us where the drugs are and save yourself a lot of trouble. Or you can sit there with your months shut and we tear this place apart board by board. So what's it gonna be?" Cut to the next morning, with the gang relaxing in a house that's been trashed after Gentry's squad tore it up board by board.
* CallBack:
** The rituals of heroin addiction--cooking the heroin in a spoon, filling the syringe, injecting into a vein--are shown in extreme closeup. Later in the film after Bob gets clean, the tea he makes and the cigarettes in an ashtray are also shown in extreme closeup, underscoring that addiction takes different forms.
** Bob's MushroomSamba involves a dreamy vision of stuff like trees and cars floating across the sky. When he's burying Nadine he seems to have an ImagineSpot of the same sort of vision, but instead of trees and cars and houses floating, it's unlucky hats.
* CallForward: Tom, who still uses and is very cynical about the drug war, predicts that authorities will use drug hysteria to create "an international police apparatus." That's pretty much what happened.
* ChekhovsGunman: David, seen early in the film as the ButtMonkey neighbor who goes to Bob looking to score some dope. He comes back at the end of the movie, having moved up a bit in the drug-pushing world, and shoots Bob.
* DisposingOfABody: What's bad? Having to get rid of a body of one of your drug buddies after she overdoses in a hotel. What's worse than that? Being told that you have to vacate the room while it's reserved, while the dead body is still in the room. What's worse than that? When the room is reserved for ''a sheriff's convention'' and you have to get the dead body out of the room while the whole hotel is crawling with cops. Luckily, Bob has a garment bag.
* DrugsAreBad: If you do drugs you may end up dead on the floor of a fleabag hotel. If you do drugs, you might find yourself having to bury the body of your drug companion, after you find her dead on the floor of a fleabag hotel.
* DutchAngle: All the shots are off-vertical as Bob explains his crackpot superstition about not leaving a hat on the bed.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: After Nadine dies and Bob decides to get clean, which causes Nadine to leave him. Later Nadine visits once more and tells Bob that she's Rick's woman now and Rick has his own crew.
* FiveFingerFillet: David's buddy/fellow thug is doing this when Bob comes over to visit. This helps establish the fellow thug as David's enforcer when the two of them pop up again near the end.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As the gang delights in finding out that part of their pharmacy score was a very valuable bottle of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydromorphone Dilaudid]], Bob warns them to be careful with it, saying "That stuff can kill you." Sure enough, Annie later overdoses on the Dilaudid.
* GrayRainOfDepression: The rain establishes a melancholy mood as Bob rides the bus back home, having decided he will quit the life and get clean, which necessitates breaking up with Dianne who has no interest in getting clean.
* HowWeGotHere: Opens with Bob being whisked to the hospital in an ambulance, as he speaks about his gang in the past tense, talking about how "we played a game you couldn't win." Then the story unfolds.
* JitterCam: Seen in the home movies of the gang at the beginning and the end.
* LeftHanging: Bob gets shot. The film ends with Bob being whisked to the hospital in an ambulance, reflecting that he's going to a place where he'll get all the drugs he wants. The last line is Bob's voiceover narration saying "I'm still alive. Hope they can keep me alive." Then the movie ends.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Bob has lost interest in sex, as all he can think about is drugs and getting high. In one scene Dianne puts a record on the record player, takes her shirt off, and tries to seduce him, and fails.
--> '''Dianne''': You won't fuck me and I always have to drive.
* MushroomSamba: The euphoria of heroin is represented onscreen with a dreamlike sequence in which things like cars, houses, and trees float across the sky as a gentle soundtrack plays.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Bob knows the cops are watching him. So he sends in a fake tip to Gentry to the effect that Bob gets his drugs via a string hung between his apartment and the neighbor's across the street. Bob then tells his neighbor that he saw somebody peeing in on the neighbor's daughter. This backfires to a certain extent when the neighbor comes out with a shotgun and shoots the cop.
* PunkInTheTrunk: The fate of poor Nadine, dumped in the trunk of Bob's car and eventually buried in the woods after she overdoses in the hotel room.
* TemptingFate: Nadine, who is in a bad mood, ridicules Bob's superstition about a hat on the bed. As the rest of the gang goes off to rob the hospital, she deliberately puts a hat on the bed to prove that Bob's superstition is nonsense. The raid on the hospital turns out to be a fiasco in which Bob barely avoids getting arrested, and then the others come home to find Nadine dead of an overdose.
* TropaholicsAnonymous: Despite being extremely cynical about addiction treatments, Bob goes to sessions.
* WeNeedADistraction: One of the gang's stock operations, in which Annie pretends to have an epileptic fit, allowing Bob to jump behind the counter and steal pills while the pharmacist is out front.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Bob is telling the story of why he won't allow anyone to even ''talk'' about dogs--he and Dianne once had a pet dog, and their faithful dog led the cops to their house. As he finishes, the television starts showing dog commercials on every channel.
''Drugstore Cowboy'' is a 1989 film directed by Creator/GusVanSant.
The film is set in UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} in 1971. Bob (Creator/MattDillon) is a dope addict and the head of a little gang of dope addicts that includes his wife Dianne (Creator/KellyLynch), Bob's buddy Rick (James [=LeGros=]), and Rick's girlfriend Nadine (19-year-old Creator/HeatherGraham in her StarMakingRole). Bob specializes in robbing drugstores. Sometimes they create a distraction in which Annie fakes a seizure in the front of the pharmacy while Bob ransacks the pill drawers. Sometimes they simply climb through open windows.
Bob's little gang is closely monitored by an anti-drug unit led by a cop named Gentry (Creator/JamesRemar). One day Bob pulls a prank on a police surveillance team that winds up getting a cop shot. The gang decides to leave town for a while, which provides them with a chance to execute one of Bob's pet ideas, namely, robbing a hospital. Things go awry.
Creator/WilliamSBurroughs pops up near the end as Tom, another drug addict living in the same flophouse hotel as Bob.
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* AllLowercaseLetters: The opening titles are presented this way.
* AndStarring: "And William S. Burroughs as Tom the ex-priest."
* AnswerCut: Gentry has come to the house on a raid, but his squad can't find the drugs--Dianne buried them in the backyard. Gentry says to the gang, "You can just ell us where the drugs are and save yourself a lot of trouble. Or you can sit there with your months shut and we tear this place apart board by board. So what's it gonna be?" Cut to the next morning, with the gang relaxing in a house that's been trashed after Gentry's squad tore it up board by board.
* CallBack:
** The rituals of heroin addiction--cooking the heroin in a spoon, filling the syringe, injecting into a vein--are shown in extreme closeup. Later in the film after Bob gets clean, the tea he makes and the cigarettes in an ashtray are also shown in extreme closeup, underscoring that addiction takes different forms.
** Bob's MushroomSamba involves a dreamy vision of stuff like trees and cars floating across the sky. When he's burying Nadine he seems to have an ImagineSpot of the same sort of vision, but instead of trees and cars and houses floating, it's unlucky hats.
* CallForward: Tom, who still uses and is very cynical about the drug war, predicts that authorities will use drug hysteria to create "an international police apparatus." That's pretty much what happened.
* ChekhovsGunman: David, seen early in the film as the ButtMonkey neighbor who goes to Bob looking to score some dope. He comes back at the end of the movie, having moved up a bit in the drug-pushing world, and shoots Bob.
* DisposingOfABody: What's bad? Having to get rid of a body of one of your drug buddies after she overdoses in a hotel. What's worse than that? Being told that you have to vacate the room while it's reserved, while the dead body is still in the room. What's worse than that? When the room is reserved for ''a sheriff's convention'' and you have to get the dead body out of the room while the whole hotel is crawling with cops. Luckily, Bob has a garment bag.
* DrugsAreBad: If you do drugs you may end up dead on the floor of a fleabag hotel. If you do drugs, you might find yourself having to bury the body of your drug companion, after you find her dead on the floor of a fleabag hotel.
* DutchAngle: All the shots are off-vertical as Bob explains his crackpot superstition about not leaving a hat on the bed.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: After Nadine dies and Bob decides to get clean, which causes Nadine to leave him. Later Nadine visits once more and tells Bob that she's Rick's woman now and Rick has his own crew.
* FiveFingerFillet: David's buddy/fellow thug is doing this when Bob comes over to visit. This helps establish the fellow thug as David's enforcer when the two of them pop up again near the end.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As the gang delights in finding out that part of their pharmacy score was a very valuable bottle of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydromorphone Dilaudid]], Bob warns them to be careful with it, saying "That stuff can kill you." Sure enough, Annie later overdoses on the Dilaudid.
* GrayRainOfDepression: The rain establishes a melancholy mood as Bob rides the bus back home, having decided he will quit the life and get clean, which necessitates breaking up with Dianne who has no interest in getting clean.
* HowWeGotHere: Opens with Bob being whisked to the hospital in an ambulance, as he speaks about his gang in the past tense, talking about how "we played a game you couldn't win." Then the story unfolds.
* JitterCam: Seen in the home movies of the gang at the beginning and the end.
* LeftHanging: Bob gets shot. The film ends with Bob being whisked to the hospital in an ambulance, reflecting that he's going to a place where he'll get all the drugs he wants. The last line is Bob's voiceover narration saying "I'm still alive. Hope they can keep me alive." Then the movie ends.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Bob has lost interest in sex, as all he can think about is drugs and getting high. In one scene Dianne puts a record on the record player, takes her shirt off, and tries to seduce him, and fails.
--> '''Dianne''': You won't fuck me and I always have to drive.
* MushroomSamba: The euphoria of heroin is represented onscreen with a dreamlike sequence in which things like cars, houses, and trees float across the sky as a gentle soundtrack plays.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Bob knows the cops are watching him. So he sends in a fake tip to Gentry to the effect that Bob gets his drugs via a string hung between his apartment and the neighbor's across the street. Bob then tells his neighbor that he saw somebody peeing in on the neighbor's daughter. This backfires to a certain extent when the neighbor comes out with a shotgun and shoots the cop.
* PunkInTheTrunk: The fate of poor Nadine, dumped in the trunk of Bob's car and eventually buried in the woods after she overdoses in the hotel room.
* TemptingFate: Nadine, who is in a bad mood, ridicules Bob's superstition about a hat on the bed. As the rest of the gang goes off to rob the hospital, she deliberately puts a hat on the bed to prove that Bob's superstition is nonsense. The raid on the hospital turns out to be a fiasco in which Bob barely avoids getting arrested, and then the others come home to find Nadine dead of an overdose.
* TropaholicsAnonymous: Despite being extremely cynical about addiction treatments, Bob goes to sessions.
* WeNeedADistraction: One of the gang's stock operations, in which Annie pretends to have an epileptic fit, allowing Bob to jump behind the counter and steal pills while the pharmacist is out front.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Bob is telling the story of why he won't allow anyone to even ''talk'' about dogs--he and Dianne once had a pet dog, and their faithful dog led the cops to their house. As he finishes, the television starts showing dog commercials on every channel.
