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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Director:
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Gus Van Sant
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Actors:
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Grace Zabriskie,
River Phoenix,
Flea,
Mickey Cottrell,
William Richert,
Jessie Thomas,
Tom Troupe,
Rodney Harvey,
Michael Parker,
Sally Curtice,
Robert Lee Pitchlynn,
Keanu Reeves,
James Russo,
Chiara Caselli,
Udo Kier
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Duration:
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104 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)207
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Plot Summary:
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Surreal arbitrary study focusing on the clubbiness between two man's hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They burning on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike is silence, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Amoral as a newborn, he is obsessed with decision his long-lost mother. Scott is the rebellious son of a squiffed-ranking family, who lives this vivacity mostly to chagrin his father. Mike is in love with Scott, who stationary maintains he is right and insists that his wild lifestyle on the streets is temporary. Together, they embark on a for to tumble t... o Mike's shelter, traveling from Portland to Idaho to Italy, with Scott picking up a beautiful girl along the detail.Read more Less
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A Nineties Classic
Gus Van Sant's movie charting the lives of two young men coming to terms with their place in the world is a true nineties arthouse classic. River Phoenix's performance is a reminder of a great talent lost to innovative film making. This film is beautiful to watch in many ways, the colours, the characters and evocative soundtrack. The road scenes and camp fire scene are very reminiscent of Easy Rider and the poetic Shakespearean passages nod towards Five Easy Pieces. This is a must see as film studios rarely have the guts to produce this type of thing anymore.
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.
My Own Private Idaho
My Own Private Idaho will beat be remembered as a testament to two talents. It's brace that the tardy River Phoenix was on the road to becoming of the best actors of his generation and a compelling memoirs recalling that, in advance of Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant was an innovator who didn't play by Hollywood rules. After success with his sophomore veil Drugstore Cowboy, the administrator was afforded a useful degree of clout and set adjacent to making this doughty, low-budget gest of kids living on the streets of Portland Oregon. Phoenix plays Mike, a homeless young handcuffs who has narcoleptic episodes spurred by means of flashbacks of the mother who abandoned him. He's not deep or 'enrol-smart' but a fractured, sensitive heart who draws you in immediately. Mi...
My Own Private Idaho
A variation on Shakespeare's Henry IV, complete with a alluring but dangerous Falstaffian grasp, which becomes a distracting plot, lessening the flick's striking.
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