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One of the best films of the 1990s, this is one of those rare box office mega-hits that deserved all the adulation and awards it earned. Youthful stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck earned an Academy Award for their incisive, witty script. Damon plays a janitor at MIT who is an enormously gifted mathematician. Salivating professors bring the angry and troubled young man to psychiatrist Robin Williams, hoping Damon will conform enough to further his education. (Williams garnered an Academy Award for his heartfelt performance.) Director Gus Van Sant put away his more invasive camera tricks and let the story tell itself. Good thing, because this is one involving and well-acted tale. Several plot tangents, including a sweet little romance between Damon and Minnie Driver, are carefully woven into the fabric of this multilayered drama. Friendship, societal expectations, and the long reach of a damaged childhood are all portrayed with such finesse that the story never feels heavy-handed. Extraordinarily optimistic, Read more

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worth its flaws
Damon and Affleck deserve all the credit they got for this script, as well as their acting.There are flaws, however, which we can overlook, but obviously I want to list them!That's the fun of this.The most glaring mistake is the guy (apparently a teamster, as if they need to get overpaid any more than they already are) cast as the judge.I've lived in Boston, and people with that accent, bordering on speech impediment, do not become judges.They become, well, teamsters and the like.Robin Williams is good, but this movie doesn't even need him.Also, Minnie Driver is fairly unattractive and has an irritating way of speaking.Stellan Skarsgaard is good as the professor, even though nobody with that eurotrash accent of his would be named "Jerry".How's that for a thirty second review?

Robin Williams shines
I really enjoyed this movie and found it to be a very tender and wonderful film. Robin Williams and Matt Damon light up the screen. I really felt this was Williams break out role as a serious actor and he showed a lot of range (though he was also great in The World According to Garp early in his career). He totally broke away from the manic comedy routines that can exhaust you and become tiring. Ben Affleck was just poor and a piece of wood as usual but what are you going to do? I guess they were a package deal back then (he and Damon)Mini Driver was also very good. Also Stellan Skarsgard was good as Williams childhood schoolmate who made it good.

Robin Williams is astonishing
This film is astounding. Robin Williams' performance as a world-weary academic and therapist is one of the most brilliant portrayals ever committed to film. Matt Damon is unbelievably effective as a math genius born to poverty in South Boston who is attempting to cope with his gift and maintain a normal life. Great script and great direction. I would put this film on a list of the 50 greatest films of all time. You must see Good Will Hunting. ... Read more

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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 Idaho and Italy, Van Sant throws a wrench into the works by conjuring a gay version of Shakespeare's Read more

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I Love You, And You Don't Pay Me.
My Own Private Idaho is Gus Van Sant's 1991 art house motion picture featuring Keanu Reeves and the late River Phoenix; it is an extremely loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I & II. Long before his critically applauded Drugstore Cowboy, Van Sant had wanted to produce My Own Private Idaho, but studios would not even read the script due to its possible debate. However following the success of Van Sant's 1989 Drugstore Cowboy, curiosity was shown towards the project generally because of Van Sant's attachment and his earlier triumph. The filmmaker received a $2.5 million budget from New Line Cinema and even got the two male leads he had anticipated, Reeves and Phoenix. Both of the actors' agents were fiercely adamant against their participation in the picture, but both were ready for the challenge. Like others in the genre, the feature didn't get a suitable release and went mostly unnoticed by mainstream audiences, only recognizing it for its taboo subject matter.
Have A Nice Day
An interesting film that looks at the lives of two street kids and their travels to find a true home and adoration.The cast is wonderful with River Phoenix (Mike) giving a heartbreaking performance as a nomad in search of his mother, and the deep longing for love and acceptance from a slumming rich kid, Scott (Keanu Reeves).The direction is mellow and passive in rich oranges and pastels with shots framed on the subject matter in bare form.The film never bows down to a perfect ending nor does it make victims or violators of the characters.It was a breakthrough art film that has aged well and avoided stereotypes immersing itself in the human characteristics everyone shares.

Phoenix is good, but the script is not.
Look, that part where the hustlers and low-lifes hang around in their abandoned building and quote Shakespeare and jump around making theatrical gestures, that part's just terrible. Especially when the Shakespearean lines are punctuated by profanity, come on, that's just a sign of a bad screenplay. Sure, you can use a seedy setting to illustrate a Shakespearean theme. But actually lifting whole passages just creates an air of artificiality, it forces the symbolism and looks really silly. Some years ago, I knew this guy who really wanted to be a film maker, more than that, he believed in art and wanted to make thoughtful, meaningful art films. But the thing was, he had nothing to write about, so he'd just take bits and pieces from Shakespeare's plays or other far superior stories, and then he'd move them to a modern setting and add lots of trendy pop culture references. That's what this reminds me of, even when the actors caper around and recite the lines, it's like a film student's idea of what Shakespearean acting is like.
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Finding Forrester
I never get tired of watching this. Sean Connery is brilliant as a reclusive author. Rob Brown debuts as a high school student in the ghetto who is secretly a damn intelligent author in his own right. There's so much in this movie that's about writing and so much that isn't. Many themes I don't feel like spoiling, and you can find another review if you want plot spoilers. The writing is sharp, the language is clever, the characters are brilliantly portrayed, the dialogue is witty and observant, and the plot is surprisingly enjoyable to watch. F. Murray Abraham shines as a teacher I prefer not to emulate, and perhaps he got many of the best lines. This DVD is just perfect. Go get it.
In search of an own voice in the middle a noisy and trivial world!

**** for Anna!
If jamaal was actually going to teach Sean Connery something he should of mentioned some other poets that were not European. There should have been some comment from his mother about poets of color to create yet another dilemma in his world. Anna Paquin is a fine young lady but, I wish that interest would have developed only slightly more. She was obviously attracted to him for being the new phenomenon at the school as it is in real life.
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Gus Van Sant made his name with this offbeat story of a small group of drug addicts who heist pharmacies to feed their habit. Matt Dillon completely broke with his juvenile persona as Bob, the grungy ringleader and jittery mastermind of a junkie crew. With his frustrated wife Dianne (Kelly Lynch), his loyal partner, the easygoing Rick (James Le Gros), and Rick's juvenile girlfriend Nadine (Heather Graham in an early role), Bob plots ingenious heists and spends the rest of his days sitting around the house getting high. When the heat becomes too intense in Portland, the quartet hits the road for small-town drug stores and hospitals, but when their luck runs out it does so in grand fashion. Set in the Pacific Northwest of 1971, Van Sant so effortlessly re-creates the period that you'd think the film was a time capsule--except for the attitude. Van Sant refuses to moralize and lines his sympathies behind his characters. They're no heroes, but Van Sant can't cast them as villains either. His low-key direction concentrates on the flavor of day-to-day life for a crew of junkies living from fix to fix. Even his drug imagery is inventively placid, a dreamy set of floating visions that suggests their own disembodied states. James Remar costars as the dogged police detective Gentry and cult author William S. Burroughs makes a memorable appearance as the aging junkie Tom the Priest. Read more

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I Was Still Alive. Hope They Can Keep Me Alive.
Drugstore Cowboy is Gus Van Sant's 1989 motion picture, responsible for launching his career. The film was widely acclaimed at the time of its release and is still held as one of the top in its genre.
An intense film, the peak of the director's career.
Gus Van Sant had one and only one talent: he could pick the right people to act in his films. In Drugstore Cowboy, all the actors fit their roles perfectly. Matt Dillon is ideal for the role of Bob, the main character. Even though he's a junkie and thief, he becomes a halfway sympathetic character through a kind of con-man charm and a willingness to accept the consequences of his actions. At the very least, he knows what he is. He has no delusions about himself. This puts him above someone like the pathetic junkie Dave, who grovels before Bob when he thinks he can get drugs out of it, and then fancies himself to be a tough guy when he gets his hands on a gun.
real, hilarious, and absolutely crazy...
The story of Bob and his drugstore raids through various cities is a very real story. This movie, however- doesn't so much offer into the insights of what it is like when you get drugged up or high. This is a movie about the lifestyle Bob and Diane lead- the drugstores they raided, the scores they made, the encounters they had along the way, and what eventually led to Bob going to rehab in the very end.
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...darn good fun...
...what a hoot! It's not like the book and how could anyone make a movie just like a book this wild? Every time I watch this movie I laugh until my sides hurt and Delores Del Ruby!...holy cow!...

The book is much better.
First of all I read the book and then saw the movie. If you are planning on doing this then I'd say that you will be very disappointed.I loved the book and hated the movie.The book is about 420 pages long and the movie is like a clip show of the book.Highlighting the major parts of the book.
Weird but not without charm
This was definatly not the norm but it had real charm i like weird movies so I loved this one it was really off the wall if you like off the wall movies than watch this one great performance by uma thurman and rain ( I didnt like uma in kill bill lol) ... Read more

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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 Idaho and Italy, Van Sant throws a wrench into the works by conjuring a gay version of Shakespeare's Read more

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I Love You, And You Don't Pay Me.
My Own Private Idaho is Gus Van Sant's 1991 art house motion picture featuring Keanu Reeves and the late River Phoenix; it is an extremely loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I & II. Long before his critically applauded Drugstore Cowboy, Van Sant had wanted to produce My Own Private Idaho, but studios would not even read the script due to its possible debate. However following the success of Van Sant's 1989 Drugstore Cowboy, curiosity was shown towards the project generally because of Van Sant's attachment and his earlier triumph. The filmmaker received a $2.5 million budget from New Line Cinema and even got the two male leads he had anticipated, Reeves and Phoenix. Both of the actors' agents were fiercely adamant against their participation in the picture, but both were ready for the challenge. Like others in the genre, the feature didn't get a suitable release and went mostly unnoticed by mainstream audiences, only recognizing it for its taboo subject matter.
Have A Nice Day
An interesting film that looks at the lives of two street kids and their travels to find a true home and adoration.The cast is wonderful with River Phoenix (Mike) giving a heartbreaking performance as a nomad in search of his mother, and the deep longing for love and acceptance from a slumming rich kid, Scott (Keanu Reeves).The direction is mellow and passive in rich oranges and pastels with shots framed on the subject matter in bare form.The film never bows down to a perfect ending nor does it make victims or violators of the characters.It was a breakthrough art film that has aged well and avoided stereotypes immersing itself in the human characteristics everyone shares.

Phoenix is good, but the script is not.
Look, that part where the hustlers and low-lifes hang around in their abandoned building and quote Shakespeare and jump around making theatrical gestures, that part's just terrible. Especially when the Shakespearean lines are punctuated by profanity, come on, that's just a sign of a bad screenplay. Sure, you can use a seedy setting to illustrate a Shakespearean theme. But actually lifting whole passages just creates an air of artificiality, it forces the symbolism and looks really silly. Some years ago, I knew this guy who really wanted to be a film maker, more than that, he believed in art and wanted to make thoughtful, meaningful art films. But the thing was, he had nothing to write about, so he'd just take bits and pieces from Shakespeare's plays or other far superior stories, and then he'd move them to a modern setting and add lots of trendy pop culture references. That's what this reminds me of, even when the actors caper around and recite the lines, it's like a film student's idea of what Shakespearean acting is like.
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If anyone ever doubts whether Nicole Kidman is a good actress, they should immediately be required to watch this outrageously wicked comedy from 1995, for which Kidman deservedly won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Leading Role. While director Gus Van Sant handles the fact-based satire with razor-sharp precision, Kidman delivers a deliciously devious performance as Suzanne Stone, a small-town New Hampshire housewife who fancies herself the next Barbara Walters, Jane Pauley, Diane Sawyer, and Maria Shriver all rolled up into one meticulously coiffed package. So determined is she to have a successful career on TV that she'll stop at nothing--even the calculated murder of her husband (Matt Dillon)--to get the attention she feels entitled to. To carry out her scheme she recruits some unwitting local teenagers including one boy (Joaquin Phoenix, matching Kidman's excellence) whose infatuation with Suzanne leads to sexual escapades and predictably troublesome consequences. It's a satirical comedy in Van Sant's capable hands, but it's so close to tabloid reality that the film never seems implausible--which only gives it a funnier, more blood-chilling quality of humor. Featuring Illeanna Douglas, George Segal, and Read more

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Good, but sometimes it was To Die of boredom For
Nicole Kidman and Matt Dillon play their parts very well and are support by a great cast including Joaquin Phoenix and Illeana Douglas.Kidman's character quickly comes into focus as someone that most of us probably didn't like when we were in school.She lies, cheats, and panders with the best of them.Matt Dillon's role changes over time.He seems to go from a lady's man to one that is ready to make a commitment.Phoenix and Douglas fill their roles very believably.The cast was wonderful.
Nicole Kidman at her very best!
I have always loved To Die For. It's an excellent movie, loosely based on the Pamela Smart case (that's what essentially inspired it). Kidman plays Suzanne Stone, a woman who won't let anyone stand in the way of her goal of being a professional newscaster, even her husband, Larry (Matt Dillon, also fabulous in this). This dark comedy is one of my absolute favorites. Suzanne finds work with a local TV station and begins a project called "Teens Speak Out" where she involves herself in the lives of 3 drugged out teenagers. But Suzanne isn't really their friend...she's looking out for her best interest. To say more would spoil the charm of To Die For. Excellent through and through and very easy to watch again and again. If you are a fan of Nicole Kidman or Matt Dillon, you should definitely check this movie out. Highy, highly, highly recommended!

To Die For
"To Die For" features the same character we've seen in hundreds of movies before. A character that is deceitful, stupid, gullible, at times smart, and has delusions of grandeur. The difference between all those movies and this one, is that this movie is told like a documentary, is darkly humorous, and is one of Gus Van Sant's best films. The movie stars Oscar Winner Nicole Kidman (Best Actress, The Hours) as Suzanne Stone, who has apparently done something really bad. Through several interviews (which cut in with the actual events) we slowly learn what took place. Suzanne gets married to Larry Marretto (Matt Dillon) and gets a job at a Weather Station. Suzanne has one dream, one aspiration...To be on a big network television show. And she'll stop at nothing to get what she wants. Anyway, while filming a documentary called "Teens Speak Out" she meets Jimmy (Joaquin Phoenix), Russel (Casey Affleck), and Lydia (Alison Folland) who are all used as ploys by Suzanne to get what she wants. She seduces both Jimmy and Lydia (Jimmy with sex and Lydia with friendship) and when you have two idiotic un-social people being seduced by a beautiful blonde newsreporter...You can pretty much see what's going to happen for the rest of the movie. I have to admit, this movie is smart for a film in it's respective genre. It uses every cliche invented, you can see what's going to happen a mile away. But Kidman, Dillon, Phoenix, and Affleck are so charming(ly evil, at times) that I couldn't help respecting this movie. I have to say the only fault of the film is that the cover is just as misleading as Suzanne is. Looking at the cover you'd expect a movie chock full of Nicole Kidman naked. Truth is, there isn't any nudity in this film at all. There's sexual situations and a couple scenes that flash by for roughly 2 seconds and are shot from above, but that's as far as it goes. Anyway, what I'm getting at is...Gus Van Sant fans should be pleased.
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A Good 'Background Music' Movie
I bought this DVD because I thought it would be a survival story, showing the emotional turmoil of being lost in the desert.I think it really fails on that account; The two men never seemed to get very angry at each other, or even at their situation, nor did the movie show any elation at finally finding civilization.It was unclear to me if one man died, but if he did the other Gerry sure didn't show much emotion about it.
The Epitome of Natural
Pretentious? That word is becoming cliche for reviewers on Amazon.If something is pretentious it has to claim to be brilliant without actually doing so.This Delivers.In fact, it is one of the best movies I have rented all year.
Gus van Sant, Beckett, and Giacometti....and stuff
OK, it's easy to see why a lot of people would not like this film. Long stretches of simple, repetitive movement combined with no dialogue, or dialogue that doesn't mean anything. But I think if you look at this as a kind of update on the existentialist view of life (and stuff like that), it works.
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Numerous critics had already sharpened their knives even before Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot color "re-creation" of the 1960 black-and-white Hitchcock classic was released, chiding the Read more

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Check this out, if you dare....
Well, I have say that this wasn't too bad for a remake. It was done in the same style, that original was done. Vince Vaughn was very good as Norman. While Anne Heche was alright as Marion. Vigo Mortensen did alright as Sam. I really like Julianne Moore as Lila. She really gave her some attitude. That and Robert Forster did a very good job as the Doctor. So, go ahead and this check out, if you dare!!!!

Hated by millions , loved by me!
YES, there is one person in the world that likes this...,me, many will not understand why? But i do. This is a faithfull remake(of course, not as good as the original) of PSYCHO, i consider thiswas made in honor of Hitchkock.It was made shot by shot like the original.The shower scene is still terrifiying, i love this remake.Gus Vant Sant did a great job, he was brave to actually make a remake.The only bad thing about this its he didnt add anything new,not so good.

Whydo a remake withoutadding anythingnew?!
Yes , this remake is extremely faithfull to the original, so, why bother to watchthe same thing again?
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Gus Van Sant made his name with this offbeat story of a small group of drug addicts who heist pharmacies to feed their habit. Matt Dillon completely broke with his juvenile persona as Bob, the grungy ringleader and jittery mastermind of a junkie crew. With his frustrated wife Dianne (Kelly Lynch), his loyal partner, the easygoing Rick (James Le Gros), and Rick's juvenile girlfriend Nadine (Heather Graham in an early role), Bob plots ingenious heists and spends the rest of his days sitting around the house getting high. When the heat becomes too intense in Portland, the quartet hits the road for small-town drug stores and hospitals, but when their luck runs out it does so in grand fashion. Set in the Pacific Northwest of 1971, Van Sant so effortlessly re-creates the period that you'd think the film was a time capsule--except for the attitude. Van Sant refuses to moralize and lines his sympathies behind his characters. They're no heroes, but Van Sant can't cast them as villains either. His low-key direction concentrates on the flavor of day-to-day life for a crew of junkies living from fix to fix. Even his drug imagery is inventively placid, a dreamy set of floating visions that suggests their own disembodied states. James Remar costars as the dogged police detective Gentry and cult author William S. Burroughs makes a memorable appearance as the aging junkie Tom the Priest. Read more

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I Was Still Alive. Hope They Can Keep Me Alive.
Drugstore Cowboy is Gus Van Sant's 1989 motion picture, responsible for launching his career. The film was widely acclaimed at the time of its release and is still held as one of the top in its genre.
An intense film, the peak of the director's career.
Gus Van Sant had one and only one talent: he could pick the right people to act in his films. In Drugstore Cowboy, all the actors fit their roles perfectly. Matt Dillon is ideal for the role of Bob, the main character. Even though he's a junkie and thief, he becomes a halfway sympathetic character through a kind of con-man charm and a willingness to accept the consequences of his actions. At the very least, he knows what he is. He has no delusions about himself. This puts him above someone like the pathetic junkie Dave, who grovels before Bob when he thinks he can get drugs out of it, and then fancies himself to be a tough guy when he gets his hands on a gun.
real, hilarious, and absolutely crazy...
The story of Bob and his drugstore raids through various cities is a very real story. This movie, however- doesn't so much offer into the insights of what it is like when you get drugged up or high. This is a movie about the lifestyle Bob and Diane lead- the drugstores they raided, the scores they made, the encounters they had along the way, and what eventually led to Bob going to rehab in the very end.
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Finding Forrester
I never get tired of watching this. Sean Connery is brilliant as a reclusive author. Rob Brown debuts as a high school student in the ghetto who is secretly a damn intelligent author in his own right. There's so much in this movie that's about writing and so much that isn't. Many themes I don't feel like spoiling, and you can find another review if you want plot spoilers. The writing is sharp, the language is clever, the characters are brilliantly portrayed, the dialogue is witty and observant, and the plot is surprisingly enjoyable to watch. F. Murray Abraham shines as a teacher I prefer not to emulate, and perhaps he got many of the best lines. This DVD is just perfect. Go get it.
In search of an own voice in the middle a noisy and trivial world!

**** for Anna!
If jamaal was actually going to teach Sean Connery something he should of mentioned some other poets that were not European. There should have been some comment from his mother about poets of color to create yet another dilemma in his world. Anna Paquin is a fine young lady but, I wish that interest would have developed only slightly more. She was obviously attracted to him for being the new phenomenon at the school as it is in real life.
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a film that tries to make something out of nothing
elephant is a whole lot of trying to way hard to make art out of the uneventful day to day lives of semi-cliche highschool students. apparently they walk through halls alone a lot and rarely have conversations with other students...generally in film you'd want to avoid those moments (see andy warhol's "sleep") as it is really really boring. following a kid around empty halls to classical music isn't enlightening and if it is art it's quite a stretch. there's really nothing revolutionary about this lean towards realism in the film. it's just a really bad way to set up a film where the climax is attempting to break the ice and shock the audience with an all to predictable school shooting which just turns our vulgar, confusing (wait why are these boys making out in the shower before they kill everyone?) and poorly constructed. example: who the hell is ben? why does he get a title? and why do you kill him off 25 seconds after his name appears on screen? why the should the audience care about a character who is more 2-dimensional than the arcade version of space invaders? this is what happens when you spend 3/4 of a movie showing us essentially nothing. what the film is trying to say here is clear, but how it's trying to say it is weak. this fim is no more art than a pencil jammed in an orange.

awful
For 108 minutes nothing happens in this whole movie. Then bam the school shooting begins. I fast fowarded 99 percent of this film and watched til the end. Super boring and pointless. Don't waste your time watching this film because there's no substance to it what so ever.

Hauntingly dark
Elephant- a film with a large hype gathered around it. I've been meaning to see this movie for some time now, and finally got to. As you probably know, it's a movie about a school shooting in a middle America high school. It's an extremely dark movie- which is funny because every shot of the movie displaysintense brightness/whiteness. Perhaps that embodies the emptiness of the people at the school. That's how the characterization comes across. You don't get to know any characters too well, so they all come across empty and miserable. The film is mostly all buildup to the final act, but the shooting isn't all the film really wants to tell. It has so many other messages about America's youth. it really is a strong and captivating film. ... Read more

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If anyone ever doubts whether Nicole Kidman is a good actress, they should immediately be required to watch this outrageously wicked comedy from 1995, for which Kidman deservedly won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Leading Role. While director Gus Van Sant handles the fact-based satire with razor-sharp precision, Kidman delivers a deliciously devious performance as Suzanne Stone, a small-town New Hampsh