James fogle novel, gus van sant screenplay as gus van sant jr. Aug 26, 2012 james fogle, a career criminal and writer who blew every chance he had to go straight, including the brief period after his manuscript about a band of outlaw junkies, drugstore cowboy, was. Plot with his wife dianne and another couple, rick and nadine, the drug addict bob hughes has planned a way to steal from pharmacies and hospitals. I dont know whether 1989s drugstore cowboy should be classified as film. The situations they get themselves into, or more appropriately, that bob gets them into, are often quite amusing and i laughed several times throughout. The constellation of auriga bardagi in the norse sky is flanked by the mouth of the wolf and the road of the dead, so too are bob and diane moving to that old viking asar bardagi.
I think avenue always wanted a color movie, says karen murphy, who serves as producer with nick. Queercentering, in mexico city, on one of his arduous opiate withdrawals and a. Drugstore cowboy quotes, movie quotes movie quotes. Drugstore cowboy is one of the best films in the long tradition of american outlaw road movies a tradition that includes bonnie and clyde, easy rider, midnight cowboy and badlands. James fogle 19362012 was the author of the autobiographical drugstore cowboy. Matt dillon and gus van sant in drugstore cowboy 1989 drugstore. This books examines the drugstore cowboy craze that exploded in toronto from 19721986. Drugstore cowboy explains the dangers and victories much like the poetic edda and the bible. Fogles story of four marauding drug addicts who travel through the pacific northwest looting narcotics from drugstore pharmacies was the basis for the movie of. Devilishly charming matt dillon is the head honcho of a quartet of neerdowell addicts who support their habits by robbing drugstores in the mid1970s northwest. Drugstore cowboy author pleads guilty to pharmacy robbery. Filmmaker gus van sant shoots drugstore cowboy, the project that will.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker or whitelist our site. Drugstore cowboy powerful look at addiction and beyond. Drugstore cowboy 58 movie clip hospital robbery 1989. They spend their lives drugged and bob is chased by the abusive police detective gentry james remar. Aug 24, 2012 james fogle, who wrote drugstore cowboy, an autobiographical crime novel that led to an acclaimed 1989 film starring matt dillon, died aug. The return of the drugstore cowboy dangerous minds. The unrepentant tone can surely be traced to james fogle, who wrote the novel drugstore cowboy in prison, and knocked off drugstores in real life. Bootscootin beverages and tasty vittles from the wild west by spears, grady. Drugstore cowboy is a 1989 american crime drama film directed by the american filmmaker gus van sant. More information on the movie is available on and also imdb.
Top 10 romantic books with more than 100 romance novels on her vita, linda lael rhymes with sale miller is one of the leading practitioners of the increasingly popular cowboy genre. The drugstore cowboy by cornell woolrich short story. Drugstore cowboy wouldve been too downbeat just as a movie about people orchestrating their own destruction salvation, so van sant does well to exploit the crazy comedy of james fogles well written book. Filmmaker gus van sant turned the unpublished novel into a movie by the same name, drugstore cowboy, in 1989, and fogles book hit shelves the following year. It is based on the autobiographical novel by james fogle, where a lot of the dialogue com. Feb 03, 2014 burroughs wrote two other books in the early fifties that werent published until after naked lunch. His followers are the wife dianne lynch, and another couple, rick legros and nadine graham. His debut novel is a singular work of contemporary fiction. Written by van sant and daniel yost, and based on an autobiographical novel by james fogle, the film stars matt.
He goes to his steady job, goes to counseling, plays golf with det. Dillon brings grace and grit to every line, and a sullen nobility to even bobs most despicable moments. Bob, his wife, diane, rick, and nadine have a penchant for robbing drugstores and. The first publication of the novel carboncopied into the acclaimed 1989 film starring matt dillon. The film is about bob hughes dillon and his small gang of drug addicts who roam town to town in early 70s u. Fogle, like the characters in his story, was a longtime drug user and dealer. The main character of drugstore cowboy, bob, is a junkie who leads a crew that includes his woman dianne in robbing pharmacies. Super 8 film, the unreleased fallenactress story alice in hollywood. It is based on the then unpublished autobiographical n. Drugstore cowboy was turned into an awardwinning film in 1989 by gus van sant. The conversation in which bob recounts the story of the horrors brought on by a lost. According to the 20 nov 1988 nyt, writerdirector gus van sant based the screenplay on the asofyet unpublished novel, drugstore cowboy, by washington.
The novel that inspired the major motion picture directed by gus van sant bob hughes, the offbeat, edgy, and slightly skewed leader of a crew of traveling junkies, describes himself as one of the cleverest and ringiest and most notorious dope fiend drugstore cowboys on the entire west coast, including alaska. Drugstore cowboy rides through a bleak terrain the. Gentry, his former nemesis, and lives with his mom. Drugstore cowboy this amiable, nononsense account of a quartet of portland, oregon, junkies in 1971 fully lives up to the promise of mala noche, director gus van sants previous feature. Theres a drugcrossed love story here too, as bob and dianne cant seem to get.
A pharmacyrobbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law. Compared to most stories about addiction, drugstore cowboy happens to be extremely accurate. Free to meander as it pleases, drugstore cowboy still offers up an intensity of. It was the first time i had ever read anything like that, where you read a book, but the book isnt the book. Drugstore cowboy is a breakthrough portrait of addiction hbo. Nico walkers life story made for gripping novel, but. The return of the drugstore cowboy gus van sants 1989 film drugstore cowboy, based on author james fogles autobiographical novel about his lifelong addictions, adventures, and crimes, was an unexpected cult success.
The novel that inspired the highly acclaimed film directed by gus van sant bob hughes, the offbeat, edgy, and slightly skewed leader of a crew of traveling junkies, describes himself as one of the cleverest and ringiest and most notorious dope fiend drugstore cowboys on the entire west coast, including alaska. Rick james le gros is a shaggy, sweetnatured dolt who never seems to know where he is or how he got there. Drugstore cowboy opening monologue to the utmost youtube. Plot in 1971, 26yearold bob hughes leads a nomadic group of drug addicts his wife dianne, his best friend rick, and ricks teenage girlfriend nadinewho travel across the pacific northwest robbing pharmacies and hospitals to support their habits.
Drugstore cowboy, which starred matt dillon as the leader of an inept band of. Oct 18, 2019 more than anything, drugstore cowboy is a film defined by its attention to livedin detail. A poor young layabout who hangs around the local drugstore with his buddies drugstore cowboys meets and wins the girl of his dreams and becomes rich and famous as a radio singer. The cowboy himself, bob, has probably ripped off more pharmacies than anyone else on the west coast. The body has to be moved from their hotel room to their car. Firstnovelist fogle, 53, has been in the washington state penitentiary for robbery and parole violation since 1979. Yet drugstore cowboy ties that compulsion to organization and elaborate. Synopsis bob hughes matt dillon is the leader of a family of drug addicts consisting of his wife, dianne kelly lynch, and another couple who feed their habit by robbing drug stores as they travel across the country. Set in portland, oregon, in the early 1970s, drugstore cowboy is a resonating evocation of life at the bottom, and yet, by portraying his characters without judgment or glamor, fogle has illuminated them. However, it did not lead to the publication authorized, anyway of fogles other works or more films. Gus van sants 1989 film drugstore cowboy, based on author james fogles autobiographical novel about his lifelong addictions, adventures. In 1971, in portland, bob, his girlfriend dianne and his friends rick and his girlfriend nadine are smalltime thieves of drugstores and hospitals. It was based on a novel by james fogle, who was convicted of a centralia pharmacy burglary in the mid1990s.
Pacific northwest, robbing drugstores in order to get their next fix. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. The drugstore cowboy by cornell woolrich short story from. Fogles story of four marauding drug addicts who travel through the pacific northwest looting narcotics. Aug 24, 2012 james fogle, whose book drugstore cowboy told the story of drug users who robbed pharmacies to feed their addiction, had died in a washington prison. After a tragedy befalls a member of his group, bob decides he must leave his dysfunctional clan and go straight. Nico walkers life story made for gripping novel, but movie. Drugstore cowboy is a powerful, thoughtevoking film, and van sants plot and philosophy culminate in matt dillon, who gives the performance of his career. The novel that inspired the major motion picture directed by gus van sant bob hughes, the offbeat, edgy, and slightly skewed leader of a crew of traveling. Apr 30, 2014 drugstore cowboy, 1989, park circusmgm, 102 min. The books of sanction i drugstore cowboy, james fogle. Nevins, jr the drugstore cowboy mcclures, october 1927 is an even sillier. Drugstore cowboy is a story told with a thread of insane logic that makes it one of the most absorbing movies in a long time.
Written by van sant and daniel yost, and based on an autobiographical novel by james fogle, the film stars matt dillon, kelly lynch, heather graham and william s. Feb 09, 2010 drugstore cowboy was a critically hailed 1989 movie. Nov 20, 1988 the gritty material made many production people imagine drugstore cowboy in black and white. Theres a lag time built into the jokes, a holding period, that. Aug 26, 2012 james fogle was serving a 16year prison term for robbery at the time of his death. Drugstore cowboy at the nuart, an electrifying movie without one. Their companions are a couple of very dim youngsters. Fogle knew that life well this book is dedicated to a long list of his pards from 1974, who all died that summer or shortly afterward in connection with the use and traffic of drugs. 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. Miller, who is known around harlequin, her publishing house, as first lady of the west, comes by her interest in things western naturally.
The thing that struck me about it was that the ending wasnt an ending. These are true stories the names are changed to protect the guilty, and the events altered to confuse police. Drugstore cowboy, his book about pharmacyrobbing junkies, became a movie. This is a matteroffact, philosophical and pscyhological look at smart, yet wild addicts what drove them, and why they repeatedly risked all to score.
This rich and compelling story of four traveling junkies who lives revolve around. Gus van sants 1989 film drugstore cowboy, based on author james fogles autobiographical novel about his lifelong addictions, adventures, and crimes, was an unexpected cult success. The first comic i can remember ever reading was a fantastic four issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once. Everything in drugstore cowboy, the new film about a gang of smalltime. Front cover is a still from the film of dillon and lynch and inside the rear cover is a photograph of the author in prison. We are using add this service so you can make it possible to share our content with other people.
In one of the films best scenes, bob tells the story of why they cant have a. An intense look behind the scenes, we understand what drove them, and learn why this happened. Drugstore cowboy is a book by authorcriminal james fogle. Drugstore cowboy and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Nov 21, 2014 in drugstore cowboy, backside of the mirror, its 15 years later in the life of bob hughes. The making of drugstore cowboy, gus van sants first major film. Everything in drugstore cowboy, the new film about a gang of smalltime junkie thieves, is steeped in a kind of narcotic hilarity. Drugstore cowboy powerful look at addiction and beyond the tech. Its about a group of drugusing thieves ruled over by a junkie named bob who steal from pharmacies. It is about criminals who do not intend to be particularly bad people, but whose lives run away with them. Thats partly because the author himself lived the very same lifestyle as the main characters.
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