Watch The Making of Drugstore Cowboy (1999) Online

Portland, 1988. Filmmaker Gus Van Sant shoots Drugstore Cowboy, the project that will bring he and his collaborators a formidable burst of mainstream attention. Starring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, and Heather Graham, the film follows a roving quartet of drug addicts — and, consequently, drug thieves, especially from the businesses of the title — who wash up in Portland's then-gritty Pearl District. A death among their own spooks the leader of the pack into trying to clean up, and an encounter with a sepulchral junkie priest does its part to convince him further. Or maybe we should call him a Junkie priest, portrayed as he is by a controversial cameo from writer William S. Burroughs. "I'm going back to the old days," Burroughs says of his role early in the above documentary on the making of Drugstore Cowboy. "The old days when they used to give people morphine in jail. The old days before the methadone programs." Read More

Watch The Making of Drugstore Cowboy online. Featuring William S. Burroughs and Gus Van Sant, The Making of Drugstore Cowboy is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 1999. The Making of Drugstore Cowboy was directed by Gus Van Sant,Michael Gillis,John Campbell. Read Less