Blu-ray Release: My Own Private Idaho

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 6, 2015
Price: Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion

River Phoenix (Stand by Me) and Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) star in the 1991 drama My Own Private Idaho, a drama from Gus Van Sant (Mala Noche) about two young street hustlers.

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in My Own Private Idaho

There’s Mike Waters (Phoenix), a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott Favor (Reeves), the wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mike’s desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a quest along the grungy streets and open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.

Visually dazzling and thematically groundbreaking, My Own Private Idaho takes a rather moving look at unrequited love and life on society’s margins.

Criterion’s director-approved Blu-ray edition of the film includes the following:

• New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Gus Van Sant, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • Alternate Dolby Digital 5.1 surround soundtrack
  • Illustrated 2005 audio conversation between Van Sant and filmmaker Todd Haynes
  • The Making of “My Own Private Idaho,”a 2005 documentary featuring cast and crew
  • Kings of the Road, a 2005 interview with film scholar Paul Arthur on Van Sant’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Orson Welles’s Chimes at Midnight
  • Conversation from 2005 between producer Laurie Parker and actor River Phoenix’s sister Rain
  • Audio conversation from 2005 between writer JT Leroy and filmmaker Jonathan Caouette
  • Deleted scenes
  • Trailer
  • A book featuring essays by film critic Amy Taubin and Leroy; a 1991 article by Lance Loud; and reprinted interviews with Van Sant, Phoenix, and actor Keanu Reeves

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