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Drugstore Cowboy

Sooner or later, someone will pay the price.

Rating 7.1 / 10Release October 20, 1989Runtime 102 min

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. But neither fun nor luck last forever.

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