“My Own Private Idaho” quotes
(1991)
Title My Own Private Idaho
Year 1991
Director Gus Van Sant
Genre Drama, Romance
Year 1991
Director Gus Van Sant
Genre Drama, Romance
Plot – Mike Waters is a young guy afflicted with convulsions and wanders the streets of Portland in Oregon, in search of his mother. The woman abandoned him as a child and Mike now is kinda obsessed by her. Only junkies and misfits guys show him a sort of solidarity. Among them there's Scott Favor, a guy from a wealthy family whose father is the mayor of the city. Mike falls in love with him and together they search Mike's mother, arriving at a derelict farmhouse where there's Carmela. Scott falls in love with her and leaves Mike, without saying him a word. The guy continues alone his wanderings.
All actors – River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey, Chiara Caselli, Michael Parker, Jessie Thomas, Flea, Grace Zabriskie, Tom Troupe, Udo Kier, Sally Curtice, Robert Lee Pitchlynn, Mickey Cottrell, Wade Evans, Matthew Ebert, Scott Patrick Green, Tom Cramer, Vana O'Brien, Shaun Jordan, Shawn Wight, George Conner, Oliver Kirk, Stanley Hainsworth, Joshua Halladay, Douglas Tollenen, Steven Clark Pachosa, Lannie Swerdlow, Wally Gaarsland, Brian Wilson, Mark Weaver, Conrad 'Bud' Montgomery, Pat Patterson, Steve Vernelson, Mike Cascadden, Eric Hull, James A. Arling, Jim Caviezel, Ana Cavinato, Melanie Mosely, Greg Murphy, David Reppinhagen, Tiger Warren, Massimo Di Cataldo, Pao Pei Andreoli, Robert Egon, Paolo Baiocco, Mario Stracciarolo, , Heather J. Braden, Kirsten Kuppenbender, Jesse Merz, Tom Peterson, Eli Swenson, Gus Van Sant
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- Scott Favor: Getting away from everything feels good.
- Mike Waters: Yeah, it does.
- Scott Favor: When I left home, the maid asked me where I was off to. I said "Wherever. Whatever. Have a nice day!".“- Mike Waters: You're the only one I can ask, you know that Walt! Please! I'll owe you a date, how about that? I'll owe you a date. Please.
- Walt: Oh God, tears crying, hold on. Here you go.”“This road never ends. It probably goes all around the world.”
“I will change when everybody expects it the least.”
“When you wake up, wipe the slugs off your face. Be ready for a new day!”
“Where do you think you're running, man? We're stuck here together, you shit!”
“I'm afraid if I shared your wine, I might catch this awful disease you appear to have.”
“When I turn twenty-one, I don't want any more of this life. My mother and father will be surprised at the incredible change. It will impress them more when such a fuck-up like me turns good than if I had been a good son all along.”
“You wouldn't even look at a clock unless hours were lines of coke, dials looked like the signs of gay bars, or time itself was a fair hustler in black leather.”
“- Scott Favor: I only have sex with a guy for money.
- Mike Waters: Yeah, I know.
- Scott Favor: Two guys can't love each other.
- Mike Waters: I don't know. I mean, for me, I could love someone even if I wasn't paid for it... I love you, and... you don't pay me.”
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