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A Texas cowboy with HIV creates a buyers' club to find alternative treatments.
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Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof sees his free-wheeling life overturned when he’s diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Determined to survive, Woodroof decides to take matters in his own hands by tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. After finding an unlikely ally in Rayon, he establishes a hugely successful “buyers’ club” and unites a band of outcasts in a struggle for dignity and acceptance that inspires in ways no one could have imagined.
"The movie is not just a hard look at the situation of HIV positive people in the 1980s, or prejudice. It also brings an important critique of the government's relationship with big pharmaceutical companies. In the performances, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto are incredible, really bringing life and depth to such memorable and difficult characters."