My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho1991

Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 104 minutes

Gus Van Sant's often-beautiful 1991 film stars River Phoenix as a narcoleptic, Seattle male prostitute and Keanu Reeves as the rich friend who agrees to help him find his mother. After a solid hour or so of the two traveling on this quest through Id… more »



Mike Waters:
If I had a normal family, and a good upbringing, then I would have been a well-adjusted person.

Scott Favor:
[Laughs] Depends on what you call normal.

Mike Waters:
Yeah, it does. Well, you know, normal, like, like a mom and a dad and a dog and sh*t like that. Normal...normal.

Scott Favor:
So you didn't have a normal dog?

Mike Waters:
No, I didn't have a dog.

Scott Favor:
Didn't have a... a normal dad?

Mike Waters:
Didn't have a dog or a, or a, or a normal dad. anyway, that's alright. I don't feel sorry for myself, I mean, I feel like I'm, I feel like I'm, you know, well-adjusted.

Scott Favor:
[Laughs] What's a normal dad?

Mike Waters:
I don't know. [pauses] I'd like to talk with you. I mean I'd like to, uh, really talk with you. I mean we're talking right now, but, you know. I don't know. I don't feel like I can be... I don't feel like I can be close to you. I mean we're close, you know, right now we're close, but, I mean, you know...

Scott Favor:
How close, I mean...

Mike Waters:
I don't know, whatever.

Scott Favor:
What?

Mike Waters:
[pause] What do I mean to you?

Scott Favor:
What do you mean to me? Mike, you're my best friend.

Mike Waters:
I know, man, I know... I know... I know I'm your friend. We're good friends, and it's good to be, you know, good friends. That's a good thing.

Scott Favor:
So...?

Mike Waters:
So I just...

[pauses]

Mike Waters:
That's okay. We can be friends.

Scott Favor:
[flustered] I only have sex with a guy for money.

Mike Waters:
Yeah, I know...

Scott Favor:
And two guys can't love each other.

Mike Waters - Yeah. [pauses] Well, I don't know, I mean, I mean for me, I could love someone even if I, you know, wasn't paid for it. [pauses] I love you, and... you don't pay me.

Scott Favor:
Mike....

Mike Waters:
I really wanna kiss you man.

[pauses]

Mike Waters:
Well goodnight man.

[pauses again]

Mike Waters:
I love you, though. [pause] You know that. I do love you.

Scott Favor:
Alright, come here, Mike.

[Pats the ground]

Scott Favor:
Let's just see. come on, man. I Just wanna see, come on.

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