Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American
biographical drama film, co-written by
Craig Borten and
Melisa Wallack, directed by
Jean-Marc Vallée.
Ron Woodroof (
Matthew McConaughey) was an
AIDS patient diagnosed in the mid 1980s when
HIV/AIDS treatments were under-researched, while the disease was not understood and highly stigmatized. As part of the experimental AIDS treatment movement, he smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas for treating his symptoms, and distributed them to fellow
people with AIDS by establishing the "Dallas Buyers Club" while facing opposition from the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Two fictional supporting characters, Dr. Eve Saks (
Jennifer Garner), and Rayon (
Jared Leto), were composite roles created from the writer's interviews with transgender AIDS patients, activists, and doctors.