Voted Best Film of 1989 by the National Society of Film Critics, Drugstore Cowboy takes place in 1971, but its dropout heroes and slapdash, unwashed aesthetic became a key influence on the early 1990s generation of unmotivated youth. Four drug addicts in Portland stagger from low to high to low again, with leader Matt Dillon staying true to his principles-no guns, no violence, no hats on the bed-while plotting enough drugstore robberies to keep the crew on a steady rainbow of little blue and red pills. Several doses, good trips, bad trips, police beatdowns, and overdoses later, and maybe its time for Matt to sober up. Or maybe not, according to a helpful rant from junkie priest William S. Burroughs. Notorious for its honest look at the appeal of the drug subculture (and politically risky, as it appeared during the no-fun-here era's infamous “Just Say No” campaign), Drugstore Cowboy stands as one of the period's most influential films, both cinematically and culturally.