Drugstore Cowboy: A Lot of Dilaudid, Gus Van Sant, and a Dead Heather Graham

You knowall thosepharmacy heistsyou discover about?Lemmings , all of them . And always the suspects are enamor or killed .

In Gus Van Sant ’s feature - duration directorial debut , Drugstore Cowboy ( 1989 ) , Matt Dillon play Bob , the natural leader of a group of four drug - addict felons on the lam in the 1970s . Around and around they go , sticking up hospital and pharmacies across the Pacific Northwest , often making out with a considerable quantity of eminent - big businessman anodyne to feed their habit . Not until a atrociously tragedy hits the group does Bob prove to clean up his act — which try out even more difficult that he ’d expected it to be .

An autobiographical novel by James Fogle ( the tangible - life Bob ) , which serve as inspiration for the film before it was even published , was released the year following the film ’s release , by which prison term Fogle had been released from prison . Old habits die heavily , though : in March 2011 Fogle was arrested for the looting of a Seattle pharmacy and was sentenced to 15 years and nine month in prison . So long , Cowboy . [ Netflix ]