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My Own Private Idaho

Van Sant's deftness of touch and superb visual style, so evident in Drugstore Cowboy, is still there...

...Van Sant is essentially making a human comedy here, a story that may be sad and lonely in parts but is illuminated by the insight that all experience is potentially ridiculous...

Even the title cards are unconventional...each is in a different, bright, solid color, behind plain white text, producing as jarring an jarring effect as if an avant-garde novel suddenly morphed into a children’s picture book.

...combines a realistic grasp of the underside of urban life with a visual sense that is by turns playful and elegiac.

...terrific movie: a tender story of unrequited love involving two Portland street hustlers, played by River Phoenix (two years before his death at age 23) and Keanu Reeves.