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My Own Private Idaho
Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to poetic, emotionally raw character studies about drifting outsiders, fragile friendship and love that cannot be returned.
- Tone
- melancholic, surreal, romantic
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- meditative
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- episodic
- Themes
- longing, found family, parental abandonment, class disparity, unrequited love
- Setting
- contemporary, rain-soaked streets, open roads and a sunlit European coast
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