Excelled by Great Performances

Rating: 8/10 (18 October 2015)

Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey in an Oscar winning performance, showcases the actor as a greatly transformation done correctly. Given 30 days to live, Woodroof (McConaughey) does his homework and sets about rustling up substances with a better chance of offering him a reprieve than the treatment to which the FDA has given its blessing. Research alerts him to the existence of unapproved but effective substances, which he's forced to smuggle in from Mexico and other countries.
The films creators play fast and loose with the facts and make up one central character altogether. Jared Leto is spectacular in the role of Rayon, a cross-dressing AIDS victim with whose help Woodroof starts selling virus-fighting cocktails out of a seedy motel. Based on a true story, which is every bit told come the film's conclusion.