Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Genres: Drama
Keywords: 1960s , anxious , based-on-novel-or-book , cautionary , cynical , fish-out-of-water , friendship , gang-rape , homelessness , hustler , lgbt , male-bonding , male-homosexuality , male-prostitution , new-york-city , polio , prostitute , provocative , psychological-drama , rape , rape-of-a-male , shower , texas