Dallas Buyers Club - Anyone else have major problems with this film? In Dallas Buyers Club, an emaciated Matthew McConaughey plays real-life AIDS victim, Ronald Woodroof.Woodroof, after he was diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, started a venture called the Dallas Buyers Club, which distributed AIDS treatments not yet approved by the FDA to those who couldn’t afford (or suffered ill effect from) the new AIDS drug at the time, AZT. Dallas Buyers Club also got me thinking about movies I loved, and one in particular: Haywire, starring Gina Carrano. Ron Woodroof founded what became known as the Dallas Buyers Club, which, in a time before efficacious alternatives, distributed AIDS medication through an underground network. In the award-winning movie The Dallas Buyers Club, Matthew McConaughey plays the role of Ron Woodroof, a real-life Texas cowboy who was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1985. Woodroof's character arc (he's a homophobe, he meets Rayon, he's mostly not a homophobe anymore) is over about 40 minutes into the film. After finding an unlikely ally in Rayon (Jared Leto), he establishes a hugely successful "buyers’ club" and unites a band of outcasts in a struggle for dignity and acceptance that inspires in ways no one could have imagined. 'Dallas Buyers Club' has garnered praise for the actor's supposedly brave portrayal of a transgender woman. But it sounds like that didn’t stop him … In the film, his sexuality is aggressively heterosexual. Matthew McConaughey clearly had to go through a lot to transform into his character in Dallas Buyers Club. Dallas Buyers Club tells the true-ish story of Ron Woodroof, who became an outlaw to get the drugs he and his AIDS-afflicted peers needed. The argument, by those who felt that Dallas Buyers Club did a disservice to the transgender community, is that Rayon is an exact representation of the negative stereotypes mainstream society heaps on transgender individuals (most especially on transgender females). This article contains spoilers. The "Dallas Buyers Club" actor Matthew McConaughey has shared how he lost 50 pounds for the role.. His unusual approach involved eating nothing but fish, egg whites, tapioca pudding — and "as much wine as I wanted to drink." To me, it felt totally unfocused and meandering. I certainly did. After Gina’s run as an MMA fighter she … Don't expect anyone to find it admirable 20 years from now. The film Dallas Buyers Club tells the story of Ron Woodroof, a man with AIDS in the 1980s who smuggled in experimental treatments to fight his disease. Dallas Buyers Club 2013 | 18+ | 1h 56m | Dramas Refusing to accept a death sentence from his doctor after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, Ron Woodroof smuggles medications from abroad. A livewire of a movie!" "I did not torture myself. Co-starring Jennifer Garner, Dallas Buyers Club is "deeply moving. Here were some of my issues, and I'm curious to see the response. (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports that …