Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how to combat the virus. Ron, now shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and bereft of government-approved effective medicines, decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, the entrepreneurial Woodroof joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts - who he once would have shunned - and established a hugely successful buyers club. Their shared struggle for dignity and acceptance is a uniquely American story of the transformative power of resilience.
This is easily Matthew McConaughey's best role in his career. He was so physically and mentally into this role and it showed. It was weird going back to the start of AIDS and how ignorant all the thinking was and seeing his character deal with it. Then it was even better to watch this person adjust to the cards he had been dealt and to completely change his ways and accept people that he otherwise would have had nothing to do with. It was also amazing how dedicated he was to saving himself and others around him and wouldn't accept any government red tape answers of no.
I would absolutely recommend that people check this movie out. It is a great story with awesome acting. You really get hooked by it all and rooting for him and him bypassing the system to help others.
