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My Own Private Idaho
Wherever, whatever, have a nice day.
Wherever, whatever, have a nice day.
Drama - 1991
My Own Private Idaho
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In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
Director:
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Gus Van Sant
Cast:
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River Phoenix
,
James Russo
,
Keanu Reeves
,
William Richert
,
Rodney Harvey
,
Chiara Caselli
,
Grace Zabriskie
,
Michael Parker
,
Jessie Thomas

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Details

Runtime:
104 min
Release date:
1 Feb 1991
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Italian, German
Budget:
$2,500,000
Revenue:
$6,400,000
Awards:
10 wins & 9 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
A simultaneously heartbreaking and exhilarating road movie.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
2 Jun 2014
fresh:
Holding all these elements together is Van Sant's sensibility, such an elusive thing it instinctively squirms away from any attempt to pigeonhole it.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jun 2014
fresh:
Although River Phoenix has distinguished himself as an actor ever since his second film, Stand By Me, nothing he has ever done before prepares you for his performance in Private Idaho as the motherless, homeless, loveless piece of human driftwood.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
2 Jun 2014
fresh:
This is a very rich, very sympathetic piece of work.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jun 2014
rotten:
[Van Sant] disdain[s] narrative. He got away with Drugstore Cowboy because its band of drugged-out dodoes were engaged in a petty crime spree that almost passed for a plot. But My Own Private Idaho is a different story. Or rather nonstory.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
2 Jun 2014
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