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Film Analysis: Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 film directed by Jean-Marc Vallee and stars Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, and Jennifer Garner. McConaughey plays Ron Woodruff, an AIDS patient in the 1980s when AIDS and HIV were not fully understood and treatments for the disease were under researched. Woodruff obtain illegal prescriptions of the experimental drug ATZ to try and treat his symptoms but found that the medication was actually causing more harm than good to himself and other AIDS patients. This incident motivated Woodruff to find other alternative treatment options, which he found in illegal pharmaceutical drugs that whose uses were unapproved by the FDA at the time.
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