My Own Private Idaho
Young street hustler Mike suffers from narcolepsy, his search for the mother who abandoned him leads him across the Northwestern U.S. and even Italy. Mike is joined by Scott Favor, the bisexual son of the mayor of Portland, Oregon with whom Mike falls in love.
16 October 1962, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
16 April 1968, London, England, UK
2 September 1964, Beirut, Lebanon
22 December 1967, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
17 May 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
9 July 1965, Cornwall, New York, USA
8 December 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 June 1942, Inglewood, California, USA
20 June 1943, Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA
26 September 1968, Mount Vernon, Washington, USA
25 April 1968, Rome, Lazio, Italy
21 August 1951, Portland, Oregon, USA
June 02, 2014
Van Sant proves again that he is masterful at charting the hearts and minds of young people adrift.
June 02, 2014
Holding all these elements together is Van Sant's sensibility, such an elusive thing it instinctively squirms away from any attempt to pigeonhole it.
June 02, 2014
One of the most original cinematic talents at work in this country, Van Sant has a knack for pulling disparate elements together and twisting them into wildly funny lyrical odysseys of the mind and heart.
June 02, 2014
Audacious, controversial, directional, important and totally unique, you'll either love it or hate it. But see it!
July 05, 2016
"My Own Private Idaho" is both a love story and a tragedy. It remains the high point in Gus Van Sant's career.
June 02, 2014
A simultaneously heartbreaking and exhilarating road movie.
June 02, 2014
Although River Phoenix has distinguished himself as an actor ever since his second film, Stand By Me, nothing he has ever done before prepares you for his performance in Private Idaho as the motherless, homeless, loveless piece of human driftwood.
June 02, 2014
Cracked and beautiful, stranger than strange, yet in some assuring way so pulsing with life that it embraces you as warmly as Father Knows Best.
June 02, 2014
The two actors create vivid characters, but they're so unsympathetic and Van Sant drags them through so many tiresome, pretentious scenes that it begins to look as if Phoenix's narcolepsy isn't part of the plot.
June 02, 2014
[Van Sant] disdain[s] narrative. He got away with Drugstore Cowboy because its band of drugged-out dodoes were engaged in a petty crime spree that almost passed for a plot. But My Own Private Idaho is a different story. Or rather nonstory.
June 02, 2014
American indie god Gus Van Sant's most iconic moment was this giddily rich revisionist road movie-cum-western.
June 02, 2014
This is a very rich, very sympathetic piece of work.
