Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Plotzle Original · O112 · June 22, 2026 · Drama / Crime

Six plot descriptions for Drugstore Cowboy (1989). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. An aging horse trainer in rural Kentucky sells opioids stolen from veterinary supplies to fund his gambling debts but his daughter discovers the missing inventory and confronts him.
2. Two brothers operate a failing convenience store in Detroit as a front for laundering money from their uncle's loan sharking operation while their mother lies dying upstairs.
3. A parole officer in Newark develops an inappropriate relationship with a former inmate she supervises and helps him avoid mandatory drug testing in exchange for companionship and affection.
4. A woman returns to her childhood neighborhood in Baltimore after prison and finds her old corner store converted into a memorial for someone she killed decades earlier.
5. A teenage runaway in Las Vegas works the overnight shift at a 24-hour pharmacy and witnesses a regular customer's slow descent into methamphetamine psychosis and homelessness.
6. A charismatic man leads a quartet including his wife and another couple who rob drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets across Portland, Oregon in 1971 to feed their insatiable drug addictions until their luck runs out.