Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
"Dare to live."
Top Billed Cast
Matthew McConaughey
Ron Woodroof
Jennifer Garner
Eve
Jared Leto
Rayon
Denis O'Hare
Dr. Sevard
Steve Zahn
Tucker
Michael O'Neill
Richard Barkley
Dallas Roberts
David Wayne
Griffin Dunne
Dr. Vass
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
F furious_izVerified TMDB Critic
2018-03-20
**A powerful film about the will to survive and the coldness of big pharma**
Matthew McConaughey gives an amazing performance as Ron Woodroof the homophobic, hard partying electrician/rodeo cowboy who becomes HIV positive due to some poor lifestyle choices. Ostracised by his friends for having what was at the time considered a gay disease he goes on a damaging bender before discovering he has full blown AIDS.
When faced with a death sentence and ineffective drugs approved by the FDA, he heads to Mexico to source and import medication not available in the US, and decides to sell it to h...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2025-09-19
Hats off to Matthew McConaughey here as he takes method acting to an whole new level. He must have lost nearly half of his body weight as he dons the role of Ron Woodruff. Woodroof is a fairly odious womanising bigot at the height of the AIDS epidemic who carries on his life recklessly assuming that he is in no danger. Well, he is soon disabused of that by a doctor who informs him that a life of casual shagging and intravenous drug use has seen him become HIV+ and likely to have about one month left to live! Initially disrespectful and sceptical, he begins to read up on the disease and realise...
