Worth seeing for the 2 leads - Dallas Buyers Club

First off, the 2 leads in Dallas Buyers Club make the movie and Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto definitely deserve awards they've won even if these are prototypical of the type of role all too often recognized: enactment of a character completely against type in this case a Texas redneck whose world view changes when he's diagnosed with aids and a cross-dressing man who becomes his friend. The leads aside the film aptly conveys the fears hat reds and confusions of the early days of the aids epidemic esp outside of the major coastal cities and large gay communities in particular. Also properly exposes the nefarious behavior of drug companies doctors and the FDA all either greedy or shortsighted bureaucrats. That said the movie is for me too schematic and even didactic. The change in personality occurs a little too easily I thought - compare the more subtle and nuanced change in a movie like The Crying Game - and the heavies are too heavy and the sympathetic doc played aptly enough by Jennifer Garner is built upon "every cliche in the book" - uptight doc by end loses the eyeglasses starts wearing attractive clothes etc.  It's a good and very sincere movie and worth seeing but as a narrative it falters and goes on for too long.