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My Own Private Idaho

Rated R for strong sensuality, language and drug use.

R 105min.
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Gus Van Sant's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Parts I and II" features River Phoenix as Mike Waters, a narcoleptic male hustler who is first seen drifting on a stretch of highway in Idaho. Read More
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