The risks paid off. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. My Own Private Idaho (1991) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2016Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2015 The young woman, Carmela, who lives there, tells Mike that his mother returned to the United States months ago. Not the most uplifting film.
It had it all: the unhealthy, consuming passion (the fatal flaw), the power struggles, the young heir in his reckless, youthful days eventually maturing into the arrogance of the privileged (Keanu), the parental ghost that one of the protagonists looks to as his prophetic voice, the voice that may give his life a meaning (River's search for and the flashbacks to the memory of his mother), the intense pathos throughout, the tragic deaths at the end... that film is just pure magic to me! Now, that's as far as I remember, and that shouldn't hold you back from getting this little gem of early 90s cinema. Received 10/8 and just as described. A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law. After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend.Mike Waters and Scott Favor are young male hustlers (with both male and female clients) working the Pacific Northwest, they often hanging out with other young male hustlers in an abandoned building in Portland under the mentorship of an overweight homeless gay man named Bob Pigeon. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. My personal opinion is that this is definitely an Art Film, somewhat temerarious. They travel together extensively - Waters is driven by the need to find his biological mother - and spend time in Italy. Mapping the spaces between fortune and degeneracy, Shakespeare and street cant, Europe and the Pacific Northwest, and gay and straight, My Own Private Idaho is the 1991 masterpiece by director Gus Van Sant. A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard. Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend.Rated R for strong sensuality, language and drug use
I can only say that I ADORE this film.
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In conclusion: to me, not only was My Own Private Idaho one of the best adaptations of (at least parts) of a Shakespeare play that I've seen, but also a tragedy of almost Shakespearian intensity in its own right.
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I have never seen anything else quite like this.
I miss the yellow of those wide time-lapse shots in the middle of nowhere. So, the blu-ray transfer is far better in many respects, but I think it actually differs from the original film, and makes for a somehow different experience.
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With the money they received from Hans, Mike and Scott travel to Italy.
It is an interesting watch but the elements don't cohere very well or make for a solid movie.
Ne comptez pas sur moi pour vous dire qui joue quoi de ces 3 rôles: d'ailleurs chacun est un peu de chaque par moments.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. This is one of those movies that I will have to watch multiple times to fully appreciate it.
Idaho is one of Phoenix's last films and is arguably his most acclaimed, along with the Stephen King adaptation of Stand By Me (1986). The next day the hustlers hold a rowdy funeral for Bob, while in the same cemetery, a few yards away, Scott attends a solemn funeral for his father.
Also, I found the portrayal of Rome in the part in which River's character goes out there to search for his mother, refreshingly true to life and totally cliché-free.
My Own Private Idaho (1991) Plot.
Nor could I find it for sale. This is brave movie making.
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom. This film is a surreal character study, following the misfit lives of a small group of 20 something rent boys. My Own Private Idaho caught its spirit perfectly, and translated it into a context that was original in its own right yet more faithful to Shakespeare in feeling than a more literal transposition might have been. River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in director Gus Van Sants haunting tale of two young street hustlers: Mike Waters, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott Favor, wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mikes desire.