My Own Private Idaho [VHS]

My Own Private Idaho [VHS]

My Own Private Idaho [VHS]
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Actor: Chiara Caselli, Matthew Ebert, Mickey Cottrell, Sally Curtice, Tom Cramer
Primary Contributor: River Phoenix
Primary Contributor: Keanu Reeves
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; Italian (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 105 minutes
Release Date: 1997-09-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Studio: New Line Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of My Own Private Idaho [VHS]

Movie Review: great mind opener
Summary: 4 Stars

this really opens your mind to life on the street, i had no clue about the realities!!

Movie Review: Simply watch it over and over again
Summary: 5 Stars

Hi.
I don't write reviews often but this is my favorite movie of all time. Definitely the best film of the 90's with "Schynedoche, New York" being the best of the 00's. The past two nights, I have put this tape in my VCR and I'm still wide-eyed awake watching the beautiful cinematography of this film every time. What really gets me is the overall emotion this film really channels, something that's very intriguing to me, living on the streets and finding the "open road", the betrayal at the end, the fate and all too real beauty of the film's star, River Phoenix, who's performance I admire more and more every time I watch it...this is a film like no other. And it is one of the ONLY Gus Van Sant films I like, which is really weird. Seriously, I feel like I'm in a parallel dimension when I watch this. Beautiful, beautiful film.

Movie Review: Please Help
Summary: 5 Stars

Please help me to understand one point of the movie. I had met and had a couple of drinks with Keanu around the making of the second Matrix in Sydney. Unfortunately I didn't remember to ask him the end scene when the car arrived to pick up River from the road after he had his Narcolepsy episode. WHo was it????? Can anyone help?

Movie Review: River & Keanu make a great team - a classic!
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm a major River Phoenix fan. He was the finest actor of my generation - simple as that. He had that rare ability to make you feel...in every film he did. IMO, this is some of his greatest work. You can almost touch his vunerability - that's how powerful it is. You forget your watching River...he totally becomes his character Mike. And of all the Keanu Reeves movies I've seen, I thought he did some of his best acting here. He and River were a great team. They had done a film before this together and their deep affection for each other and their friendship is clear - it shows through. It may have been working with his good friend, River, that made his acting so great in this film. They worked well off each other - and it showed. When I first rented this movie, I didn't get it...thought it was so wierd...and wondered why in the hell would River and Keanu do a film like this??? That was my mistake - I didn't give it a fair chance the first time...only half heartedly watching. But a few months later, I rented it again...feeling I had missed something the first time around - and I'm so glad I did. This is a raw, messy masterpiece that absolutely deserves your attention. River's performance alone is worth the price of the dvd. It touched me...made me laugh and cry. this movie will stay with you for awhile because River's performance is so hauntingly good. The ending was sad to me. But I think it's what you make of it. To me, River will always be searching...and that was Keanu's character that drives by in the end and picks him up. Have a nice day!

Movie Review: charlotte lmp
Summary: 5 Stars

This was an independent movie which was visually beautiful but a bit hard for me to understand. It was one of the beautiful River Phoenix's last roles and he was so great in the character, almost too natural and brilliant.
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Summary of My Own Private Idaho [VHS]

Gus Van Sant's often-beautiful 1991 film stars River Phoenix as a narcoleptic, Seattle male prostitute and Keanu Reeves as the rich friend who agrees to help him find his mother. After a solid hour or so of the two traveling on this quest through Idaho and Italy, Van Sant throws a wrench into the works by conjuring a gay version of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, with Reeves's character as Prince Hal and filmmaker William Richert (who directed Phoenix in the 1988 Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon) as a variation on Falstaff. The experiment is interesting to watch, but you can't help wondering what on earth happened to the movie. Still, the film has a cult status one can't argue with, and Phoenix gives a tragic performance that stays in the memory. --Tom Keogh

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