Dallas Buyers Club (2013) is a biographical drama directed by Jean-Marc Vallée that follows the real-life story of Ron Woodroof, a Texas electrician who operated an underground distribution network for unapproved AIDS treatments in the mid-1980s. Core Plot Summary
In 1985 Dallas, rodeo cowboy Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given . Initially in denial and ostracized by his peers due to the era's heavy stigma, he eventually begins a desperate search for survival after the FDA-approved drug AZT proves toxic and inaccessible.