We're only a few days into the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival but it's already shaping up to be a great year performance-wise. Chiwetel Ejiofor is phenomenal in 12 Years a Slave and will likely be a serious contender in the Best Actor Oscar race, but the long-in-development AIDS drama Dallas Buyers Club had its world premiere earlier today and not only did Matthew McConaughey deliver in the lead role, but Jared Leto surprised with a truly stellar performance. Hit the jump for my rundown of the Oscar prospects for Dallas Buyers Club in this special TIFF edition of Oscar Beat. Based on a true story, the film centers on Ron Woodruff (McConaughey), a Texas electrician who, after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, began to smuggle alternative and illegal treatments into the US and into the hands of other patients. Dallas Buyers Club has been a passion project for McConaughey for years, and he dropped a considerable amount of weight to finally bring Woodroof's story to the screen. The film itself is a fascinating look at the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s that chronicles the era from a different point of view. By taking place in Texas and telling the story of Woodroof—a heterosexual "man's man" by all accounts—Dallas Buyers Club gives us a look into the epidemic from the perspective of someone who feels angered, ashamed, and embarrassed to be roped in with the homosexual community. It's an interesting way to examine the AIDS crisis, and director Jean-Marc Vallee smartly ...
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