PPT Slide
- Only “X” rated film to win Best Picture academy award although today it would be rated “R”
- Academy awards for best screenplay, best director and best picture
- One of many “buddy pictures” that became popular in 1960s-1970s and marked the decline of women’s roles
- Dustin Hoffman’s second role after The Graduate and Jon Voight’s first major role earned each an Academy Award for best actor.
- gritty setting and subject matter set against the characters’ growing friendship
- contrast between urban reality and tropical dream