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My Own Private Idaho

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in this haunting tale from Gus Van Sant about two young street hustlers: Mike Waters, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott Favor, the wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mikes desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a quest along the grungy streets and open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home. Visually dazzling and thematically groundbreaking, My Own Private Idaho is a deeply moving look at unrequited love and life on societys margin

"A dense and personal film with an engulfing sadness. . . . My Own Private Idaho stands as Van Sants first artistic peak, a perfect synthesis of formal inventiveness and narrative generosity." - Village Voice

"In addition to pop-art playfulness, road movie, love story, documentary and Western tropes, the director even finds time to riff (jarringly, but arrestingly) on Shakespeares Henry IV plays, most obviously in the form of William Richerts grandiloquent flophouse Falstaff figure. Yet thanks in large part to Phoenixs harrowingly vulnerable performance, Idaho packs a real emotional wallop." - The L Magazine

"Beautifully wrought, darkly funny and finally devastating, ``My Own Private Idaho`` almost single-handedly revives the notion of personal filmmaking in the United States This is a film of breathtakingly free and constant movement." - The Chicago Tribune