My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho

Gus Van Sant's often-beautiful 1991 film stars River Phoenix as a narcoleptic, Seattle male prostitute and Keanu Reeves as the rich friend who agrees to help him find his mother. After a solid hour or so of the two traveling on this quest through Idaho and Italy, Van Sant throws a wrench into the works by conjuring a gay version of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, with Reeves's character as Prince Hal and filmmaker William Richert (who directed Phoenix in the 1988 Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon) as a variation on Falstaff. The experiment is interesting to watch, but you can't help wondering what on earth happened to the movie. Still, the film has a cult status one can't argue with, and Phoenix gives a tragic performance that stays in the memory. --Tom Keogh

Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Gus Van Sant
Production: Fine Line Features
  9 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R (Restricted)
Year:
1991
104
4,969 Views
Some people take your heart, others take your shoes, and still others take you home.
It's not where you go, it's how you get there.
Wherever, whatever, have a nice day.

Mike Waters:
If I had a normal family, and a good upbringing, then I would have been a well-adjusted person.

Scott Favor:
[Laughs] Depends on what you call normal.

Mike Waters:
Yeah, it does. Well, you know, normal, like, like a mom and a dad and a dog and sh*t like that. Normal...normal.

Scott Favor:
So you didn't have a normal dog?

Mike Waters:
No, I didn't have a dog.

Scott Favor:
Didn't have a... a normal dad?

Mike Waters:
Didn't have a dog or a, or a, or a normal dad. anyway, that's alright. I don't feel sorry for myself, I mean, I feel like I'm, I feel like I'm, you know, well-adjusted.

Scott Favor:
[Laughs] What's a normal dad?

Mike Waters:
I don't know. [pauses] I'd like to talk with you. I mean I'd like to, uh, really talk with you. I mean we're talking right now, but, you know. I don't know. I don't feel like I can be... I don't feel like I can be close to you. I mean we're close, you know, right now we're close, but, I mean, you know...

Scott Favor:
How close, I mean...

Mike Waters:
I don't know, whatever.

Scott Favor:
What?

Mike Waters:
[pause] What do I mean to you?

Scott Favor:
What do you mean to me? Mike, you're my best friend.

Mike Waters:
I know, man, I know... I know... I know I'm your friend. We're good friends, and it's good to be, you know, good friends. That's a good thing.

Scott Favor:
So...?

Mike Waters:
So I just...

[pauses]

Mike Waters:
That's okay. We can be friends.

Scott Favor:
[flustered] I only have sex with a guy for money.

Mike Waters:
Yeah, I know...

Scott Favor:
And two guys can't love each other.

Mike Waters - Yeah. [pauses] Well, I don't know, I mean, I mean for me, I could love someone even if I, you know, wasn't paid for it. [pauses] I love you, and... you don't pay me.

Scott Favor:
Mike....

Mike Waters:
I really wanna kiss you man.

[pauses]

Mike Waters:
Well goodnight man.

[pauses again]

Mike Waters:
I love you, though. [pause] You know that. I do love you.

Scott Favor:
Alright, come here, Mike.

[Pats the ground]

Scott Favor:
Let's just see. come on, man. I Just wanna see, come on.


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