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My Own Private Idaho
1991
Two street hustlers from the Northwest, one abandoned as a child, the other rebellious scion of a wealthy and powerful family, travel as far as Rome, Italy in search of the former's missing mother. Read more
| Starring | River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo |
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| Director | Gus Van Sant |
| Genres | Drama, Gay/Lesbian |
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My Own Private Idaho
Two street hustlers from the Northwest, one abandoned as a child, the other rebellious scion of a wealthy and powerful family, travel as far as Rome, Italy in search of the former's missing mother.
| Starring | River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo |
|---|---|
| Director | Gus Van Sant |
| Studio | Warner |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Gay/Lesbian |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 27 Jun 2005 Production year: 1991 |
| Format | DVD |
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A narcoleptic rent boy's doomed quest to find his mother is all the story director Gus Van Sant needs to explore the meaning of “home” and “family” in this unsettling tone poem. Using hallucinatory dream sequences, cinéma vérité confessions with male hustlers, artful sexual posing and impressionistic effects to hammer home the disturbed state of River Phoenix's mind, Van Sant also manages to extract a mould-breaking performance from Keanu Reeves (playing the object of Phoenix's affections). Audacious, controversial, directional, important and totally unique, you'll either love it or hate it. But see it!
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A variation on Shakespeare's Henry IV, complete with a seductive but dangerous Falstaffian figure, which becomes a distracting device, lessening the film's impact.
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27 out of 33 people found this review helpful
River's greatest performance
I highly recommend this film, one of Gus Van Sant's best features to date. And as usual for one of his films it is VERY arthouse, much of the dialogue is even shakespearian. But the main reason to see this film is because this was probably River Phoenix's most difinitive performance. He was perfectly cast in this role that was to be one of his last before his death. He even wrote the key scene in the film between his and Keanu Reeves character. Personally I think this is a must-see gay or straight.
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27 out of 33 people found this review helpful
River's greatest performance
I highly recommend this film, one of Gus Van Sant's best features to date. And as usual for one of his films it is VERY arthouse, much of the dialogue is even shakespearian. But the main reason to see this film is because this was probably River Phoenix's most difinitive performance. He was perfectly cast in this role that was to be one of his last before his death. He even wrote the key scene in the film between his and Keanu Reeves character. Personally I think this is a must-see gay or straight.
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