DALLAS BUYER'S CLUB

Movie:  Dallas Buyer's Club
Jan's Rating:  A
Time:  1 hour 57 minutes

Jan's Opinion:  I didn't have the opportunity to see this movie when it was in the theaters so my husband and I rented it from Time Warner last night.  This is another movie taken from a true story.  Ron Woodroof, played by Matthew McConaughey, is an electrician and rodeo cowboy.  He doesn't live a very clean life.  He is not gay but drinks any kind of alcohol he can get his hands on, does drugs, and has unprotected sex with any woman who is willing. He knows he is ill but ignores it until he ends up in the hospital and the doctor tells him he is HIV Positive.  After cursing out the doctor, he leaves the hospital.  He then takes the diagnosis seriously and reads up on the disease.  When he learns that the United States has a lack of medicines, he goes to Mexico where they introduce him to alternative treatments and he gets better.  He then goes back to the States and starts his own business selling these alternative "vitamins".  Jennifer Garner plays the role of his doctor and agrees with him that the United States is not doing enough.  I'm going to leave you hanging here so I don't spoil the whole movie for you.  Go see it.  It's a little bit dark but the acting is brilliant.  You no doubt heard that Matthew lost 47 lbs. for this role.  He certainly did not look like "Sexiest Man of the Year", which was his title in recent years.