They walk the cold streets with condensation smoking from their mouths, they have to steal from produce stands in order to eat anything, and they fight and bicker with one another at the same rate that they grow fond of one another. Basically, the film is about them living in the hell that is the underbelly of the said American dream. While there, he finds a home with a homeless man (Dustin Hoffman) and the two learn about each other and start to make more “American dream” aspirations together.
He moves, he’s stuck in the city, and he doesn’t find the success that he saw in that variation of the “American dream”. His main aspiration in life? To find a rich woman and live off of her and simply aim to please her. The basic outline of Midnight Cowboy is this: a young Texan man (played by Jon Voight) decides he wants to move to New York City and become a hustler.
