Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike is quiet, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his long-lost mother. Scott is the rebellious son of a high-ranking family, who lives this life mostly to embarrass his father. Mike is in love with Scott, who still maintains he is straight and insists that his wild lifestyle on the streets is only temporary. Together, they embark on a quest to find Mike's moth... er, traveling from Portland to Idaho to Italy, with Scott picking up a beautiful girl along the way.Read moreLess
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 will best be remembered as a testament to two talents. It's proof that the late River Phoenix was on the road to becoming one of the best actors of his generation and a powerful reminder that, before Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant was an innovator who didn't play by Hollywood rules. After success with his sophomore film Drugstore Cowboy, the director was afforded a useful degree of clout and set about making this gritty, low-budget story of kids living on the streets of Portland Oregon.
Phoenix plays Mike, a homeless young man who has narcoleptic episodes spurred by flashbacks of the mother who abandoned him. He's not deep or 'book-smart' but a fr...
My Own Private Idaho
A narcoleptic rent boy's doomed quest to find his mother is all the story director Gus Van Sant needs to explore the meaning of "home" and "family" in this unsettling tone poem. Using hallucinatory dream sequences, cinéma vérité confessions with male hustlers, artful sexual posing and impressionistic effects to hammer home the disturbed state of River Phoenix's mind, Van Sant also manages to extract a mould-breaking performance from Keanu Reeves (playing the object of Phoenix's affections). Audacious, controversial, directional, important and totally unique, you'll either love it or hate it. But see it!
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im not gay but goddamn river phoenix was a good looking cat. anyways great weird film starring river phoenix and keanu reeves. i dont know why, but i like this film. it's worth more than a look. 3 of 4 stars very good.
