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    My Own Private Idaho (1991)

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    Mike Waters (River Phoenix) is a narcoleptic male prostitute prone to falling asleep at stressful moments and desperately in love with his hustler friend Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves).

    Together they leave Idaho and roam the American countryside searching for Mike’s mother. For Scott, the journey is a means of rebelling against his affluent background, but, for Mike, it is a (doomed) quest for love in a hostile environment from which he can never escape.

    Using hallucinatory dream sequences, cinéma vérité confessions with male hustlers, artful sexual posing and impressionistic effects to hammer home the disturbed state of Mike’s mind, director Gus Van Sant also manages to extract a mould-breaking performance from Keanu Reeves.

    Audacious, controversial, directional, important and totally unique, you’ll either love it or hate it.

    Mike Waters
    River Phoenix
    Scott Favor
    Keanu Reeves
    Richard Waters
    James Russo
    Bob Pigeon
    William Richert
    Gary
    Rodney Harvey
    Carmella
    Chiara Caselli
    Digger
    Michael Parker
    Denise
    Jessie Thomas
    Alena
    Grace Zabriskie

    Director
    Gus Van Sant

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