1. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

In this Best Picture winner, Jon Voight’s tall drink of Texan hustler quickly becomes familiar with the down-and-out essentials of New York grit: dealing with insane Park Avenue housewives, living in a shoebox apartment without heat, experimenting with psychedelic drugs and learning how to be a car-disrespecting pedestrian. Thanks for the tips, Ratso!

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Top ten fish-out-of-water movies set in New York City

A small-town boy/African prince/mermaid drops into the big city and…you know the rest. Here are our fave movies about New York newbies.

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No subgenre plays into the joys of New York–style schadenfreude quite like the fish-out-of-water tale. Here are ten odes to the obliviousness of NYC visitors that will make any Gotham dweller feel appropriately smug about swimming with the current of such a vast, overwhelming stream—all while crying or laughing at (or with) those Aussie adventurers, animated princesses, country bumpkins and Muppets struggling to hack it in the urban jungle.

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