DALLAS BUYERS CLUB-MATTHEW McCONAUGHY has aids, finds illegal treatments-DVD-FYC

Description: DALLAS BUYERS CLUB starring MATTHEW McCONAUGHY, JARED LETO DVD For Your Consideration The phrase "This viewing copy is provided for awards consideration only and is not for sale or public presentation" appears occasionally on the bottom of the screen. DALLAS BUYERS CLUB tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughy), an Aids patient diagnosed in the mid 1980s when HIV/AIDS treatments were under-researched, while the disease was not understood and highly stigmatized. Woodroof works around the system to help Aids patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease. Dallas 1985. Electrician and sometimes bull rider Ron Woodroof lives hard, which includes heavy smoking. drinking. drug use (primarily cocaine), and casual sex. He is racist and homophobic. While in the hospital on a work related injury, the doctors discover and inform him that he is HIV positive and that he will most likely die within 30 days. Ron is initially in angry denial that he would have a disease that only "faggots" have, but upon quick reflection comes to the realization that the diagnosis is probably true. He begins to read whatever research is available about the disease, which at the time seems to be most effectively treated by the drug AZT. AZT, however, is only in the clinical trials stage within the U S. Incredulous, that he as a dying man, cannot pay for any drug which may save or at least prolong his life, he goes searching for it by whatever means possible. It eventually leads him to Mexico and a "Dr" Vass, an American physician whose license was revoked. Woodroof joins forces with a fellow Aids patient (Jared Leto) and begins selling the treatments to the growing number of people who can't wait for the medical establishment to save them. Check out my other items! Be sure to add me to your favorites list!

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