Dallas Buyers Club

In the 1970s and 80s Ron Woodroof led the dream life of a modern cowboy: hanging with his buddies drinking beer, going to rodeos, and having a different cowgirl every night. But every action has a reaction and the price that has to be payed for his lifestyle is a high one: the price is a disease that was not understood in the early days of diagnosis, the disease of AIDS.

After Ron is diagnosed and given 30 days to live, he does extensive research and tries to get into an experimental program to test a new drug to treat AIDS that the FDA is trying to get approved. After getting cut off and trying to smuggle the drug out the hospital Ron is out of help and at the end of his 30 days. So he takes a trip down to Mexico to get more and in Mexico he is told the truth of the 'miracle' drug: it will kill him. The good news is that there is other drugs that will help, the bad news is that they are all illegal in the U.S. Ron starts to smuggle the drugs in to the U.S. and they help him, so he begins reaching out to other AIDS victims including the transgender prostitute Rayon who will later become his friend. This is the story of a man fighting a disease, his prejudices, and the all powerful FDA.

The Dallas Buyers club is a sad story. A powerful story with incredible performances from Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. It's also a very controversial story. But aside from the controversy this true story is really a human story, about one man standing against big drug corporations to get people the help they really need. But beside even the David-and-Goliath part of this story is the lesson that if you learn to look past prejudices and predispositions to try to understand people maybe you can really help them.