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My own private Idaho / Fine Line Features presents ; produced by Laurie Parker ; written and directed by Gus Van Sant.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1609D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 277.Publication details: [New York] : Criterion Collection, ©2005.Edition: Widescreen format; special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1559409576
  • 9781559409575
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .M9269 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
disc 1. The film (Idaho ; Seattle ; "Immaculate perfection" ; Pretty rich girl ; "Some hustler, huh?" ; Porno-mag shop ; A German guy named Hans ; Portland ; Worst date ; Bob Pigeon returns ; A crackpot scheme ; "When I turn twenty-one" ; Rock 'n' roll money ; The mayor of Portland ; "Tell us, Bob!" ; The sheriff comes for Scott ; Favor for his cousin ; To the potato state ; Around the campfire ; Not a motorcycle cop ; "Me, you, and mom" ; The family tree ; Room service ; Der adler ; "Some business" ; "You like your bike?" ; Roma ; "Mom?" ; Carmella ; In love with Scott ; Left behind ; In Italian ; Back in Portland ; "Headlong into his inheritance ; "I don't know you, old man" ; Death from a broken heart ; Two funerals ; "A connoisseur of roads ; End credits ; Color bars). Original theatrical trailer -- disc 2. The supplements: audio interview with Van Sant by filmmaker Todd Haynes; "The making of 'My own private Idaho'": a new documentary featuring crew members; "Kings of the road": a new video interview with film critic Paul Arthur on the adaptation; video conversation between producer Laurie Parker and Rain Phoenix; outtakes; audio conversation between writer JT LeToy and filmmaker Jonathan Caouette.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Eric Alan Edwards ; edited by Curtiss Clayton ; music, Bill Stafford.
Awards:
  • Independent Spirit awards, Best film music (Bill Stafford), Best male lead (Phoenix), Best screenplay (Van Sant), 1992.
Cast: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey, Michael Parker, Flea, Chiara Caselli, Udo Kier, Jessie Thomas, Grace Zabriskie.Summary: Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD DRAMA My own p Available 33111009896529
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Gus Van Sant's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Parts I and II" features River Phoenix as Mike Waters, a narcoleptic male hustler who is first seen drifting on a stretch of highway in Idaho. Mike shifts from Seattle to Portland, where he has taken up with Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves), who is also a hustler. The difference between them is Mike's sleepy state betrays an uncertain future, while Scott is ready to inherit a fortune from his father within a week. Mike feels a real affection for Scott, but Scott does not believe men can really love each other. Besides, Scott is mostly hustling as a means of slumming and killing time before he inherits his money. Mike, however, delusionally thinks Scott will continue with his life as a drifter after receiving his inheritance. Mike's belief is shared by the dregs of Portland, who live out of an abandoned hotel with their spiritual leader Bob (film director William Richert). They're convinced Scott's fortune will benefit them all, when in reality Scott has other plans. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Program notes (57 p.) featuring essays by J.T. LeRoy and Amy Taubin, 1991 article by Lance Loud, and reprinted interviews with Van Sant, Phoenix, and Reeves inserted in container.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.

disc 1. The film (Idaho ; Seattle ; "Immaculate perfection" ; Pretty rich girl ; "Some hustler, huh?" ; Porno-mag shop ; A German guy named Hans ; Portland ; Worst date ; Bob Pigeon returns ; A crackpot scheme ; "When I turn twenty-one" ; Rock 'n' roll money ; The mayor of Portland ; "Tell us, Bob!" ; The sheriff comes for Scott ; Favor for his cousin ; To the potato state ; Around the campfire ; Not a motorcycle cop ; "Me, you, and mom" ; The family tree ; Room service ; Der adler ; "Some business" ; "You like your bike?" ; Roma ; "Mom?" ; Carmella ; In love with Scott ; Left behind ; In Italian ; Back in Portland ; "Headlong into his inheritance ; "I don't know you, old man" ; Death from a broken heart ; Two funerals ; "A connoisseur of roads ; End credits ; Color bars). Original theatrical trailer -- disc 2. The supplements: audio interview with Van Sant by filmmaker Todd Haynes; "The making of 'My own private Idaho'": a new documentary featuring crew members; "Kings of the road": a new video interview with film critic Paul Arthur on the adaptation; video conversation between producer Laurie Parker and Rain Phoenix; outtakes; audio conversation between writer JT LeToy and filmmaker Jonathan Caouette.

Director of photography, Eric Alan Edwards ; edited by Curtiss Clayton ; music, Bill Stafford.

River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey, Michael Parker, Flea, Chiara Caselli, Udo Kier, Jessie Thomas, Grace Zabriskie.

Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.

MPAA rating: R.

DVD; NTSC, Dolby digital 5.1; Dolby digital stereo.; region 1.

Soundtrack in English; closed-captioned.

Independent Spirit awards, Best film music (Bill Stafford), Best male lead (Phoenix), Best screenplay (Van Sant), 1992.

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