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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Release Date: Oct 18, 1991
Running Time: 102 mins.
Running Time: 105 mins. (video version)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Two street hustlers from the Northwest, one abandoned as a child, the other rebellious scion of a wealthy and powerful family, travel as far as Rome, Italy in search of the former''s missing mother.
cast + crew
Director
Mike Waters
Scott Favor
Richard Waters
Bob Pigeon
Gary
Carmella
Digger
Denise
Budd
Alena
reviews
December 8, 2000
My Own Private Idaho615 10-17-91
It isn't every day that someone freely adapts Shakespeare's Henry IV plays into a hallucinatory movie about male hustlers with a mostly gay clientele in Portland, Oregon. But writer-director Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy) has done just that in this tragicomedy about two boys -- Mike (River Phoenix) and Scott (Keanu Reeves) -- whose only sense of family comes from the streets. Mike, a narcoleptic, dreams of finding his lost mother, while Scott, the updated Prince… 
PETER RELIC -
March 10, 2005
Gus Van Sant's lyrical depiction of young hustlers on the make remains an essential testament to the beauty and chops of the late River Phoenix, starring as quiffed narcoleptic Mike Waters, who takes up with slumming rich kid Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves). It's basically Mike and Scott's gay adventure, braised with Shakespeare references and time-lapse footage of scudding clouds. Superb bonus disc includes the featurette "Working With River."
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