My Own Private Idaho
Wherever, whatever, have a nice day.
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Produced by New Line Cinema, Fine Line Features
A melancholic, intellectually ambitious road film that uses Shakespearean structure to explore male friendship, desire, and loss among the urban dispossessed.
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. 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.
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