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My Own Private Idaho

Opens on December 15

Director: Gus Van Sant Run Time: 104 min. Format: 35mm Release Year: 1991

Starring: Chiara Caselli, Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, Udo Kier, William Richert

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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