Michael Childers

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a dark and difficult masterpiece and the deeply gifted and flawed people who made it. It is about New York in a troubled era of cultural ferment and social change. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era. The 1969 movie tells the story of two homeless loners who join forces out of desperation and struggle to survive.

Inspired by a true story. Valiant Thor, a Universal Emissary, meets with President Eisenhower in 1957 and is put on VIP status for 3 years. Thor has come to lend aid to humanity, only the military industrial complex and the shadow government want his advanced technology and will use any means to get it.

Reeling from withdrawal effects after a pharmaceutical drug trial, a reclusive aspiring illustrator sets out to form a relationship with an outgoing gal despite his continuous efforts at solitude and isolation. Parker is uncertain if he suffers from anxiety, but as the medication leaves his system he can barely perform daily tasks. Struggling with withdrawals and anxiety following a pharmaceutical research study, Parker wants nothing but to be left alone. Following a chance encounter with Teresa, a young woman with whom he previously crossed paths, he attempts a step in the opposite direction.

One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the stretch of old highway with a mysterious Rest Stop, where they find themselves in the same predicament as Nicole and Jesse: confronting a madman.

In Texas, the aspirant actress Nicole Carrow runs away home to Los Angeles with her boyfriend Jess Hilts. They drive through a shortcut in an old road, and when they park in a rest stop, Jess is abducted by the sadistic driver of an old yellow truck. Along the night, Nicole is threatened by the sick maniac, while mysterious things happen to her in the place.

Interviews with Michael Childers, Jerome Hellman, Jennifer Salt, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, John Barry, Sylvia Miles, Bob Balaban, Adam Holender about Midnight Cowboy.

Documentary featuring the contentious news surrounding the movie "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), including its Oscar win for feature film.

A man, who has not left the building he works and lives in for 14 years, meets a receptionist eager to understand more about his mysterious life.

In an enclosed, bleak future, Carter is becoming the domineering manager's golden boy - until he meets a woman who has been smuggling contraband to the shut-in factory workers. Carter must decide whether to continue an increasingly meaningless existence or push the limits of faith and logic by venturing outside.

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.