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My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeare 's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V.
20 Jul 1991 · A 1991 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves as street hustlers in Portland. The film is loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV and explores themes of friendship, love, and identity.
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters (River Phoenix) is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves) is the rebellious son of a...
27 Dis 2021 · Part arthouse cinema, part unconventional road-trip movie, My Own Private Idaho makes for a pivotal – if not definitive – outlier in the pin-up lineage of Reeves and Phoenix's respective...
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29 Sep 1991 · 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.
A surreal character study of two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, who travel from Portland to Idaho to Italy in search of Mike's mother and Scott's identity. The film explores their friendship, sexuality, and narcolepsy in a poetic and experimental style.
