Matt Dillon sips from a Benson Bubbler right before he rips off a pharmacy on Northwest Glisan Street. That’s our opening for Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant’s 1989 directorial breakthrough. The film, ...

With 1989’s Drugstore Cowboy, his second feature, Gus Van Sant became locked in as a filmmaker to follow. Set in 1971, the film tracks the ongoing quest across the Pacific Northwest of self-described ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- The man who wrote Drugstore Cowboy, an autobiographical crime novel that led to an acclaimed 1989 film starring Matt Dillon, has died at age 75. A state corrections spokeswoman says ...

Timewise, the film is hard to pin down. Set in the 1970s, it was released in October 1989, yet it feels more simpatico with the zeitgeist of the 1990s – more aligned with that decade’s blooming of ...

After amassing a filmography of acclaimed movies that have been based on or inspired by true events and real-world stories, Gus Van Sant has mastered the art of reflecting authentic lived experiences ...