Reviews

Though I have never been in love with country music or movies, I like this one, it´s funny and entertaining. I consider that River was a big actor for a small role, but anyway I liked it. My frustration though was when I bought the CD, and the music was completely different from the ones on the movie, not telling that ,my favorite two songs which are the last song (performed by Samantha) and other by River are not only different versions from the movie ones but they are not part of the soundtrack!. I like Samantha, Sandra and River so, I had a good time watching it.

For me this is Gus Van Sant´s best movie ever, I really love the movie, and River´s performance is great, cause it´s not just like a gey movie, the point is, there are Mikes and Scotts out there on the streets, narcolepsy is real and sad . River´s background is terrible, he calls himself well adjusted though. I don´t know but I think this movie represents a lot of what we people have inside, for me it was very touching, cause it moves from friendship, love, inside demons (we all have). This movie deserved to be a lot more recognized, cause now we are used to seeing, strong scenes about gay and not gay movies, but when Idaho was done, it was like really new and innovating from Mr:Van Sant. Besides he picked my top favorite actors River and Keanu, I love them both. On the other hand as opposed to what I´ve been reading here I think that the one picking up Mike is Hans, driving Alena´s car, unfortunately not Scott. The sad thing here is that Mike was going to live that way his whole life, which anyway was not very promising. Ok last thing, cause I could talk about this for ever, is that I really recommend the movie, the performances (all of them great) I love them all Digger, Budd, Hans (THE funniest) Bob, everyone. So if you are ready to see River and Keanu together doing their best, watch it.

I am not gonna say too much, but this is one of the best movies ever made, River Phoenix, deserved the award a lot more than Kevin Kline. Maybe River was young and they thought he will have many other chances to do it, unfortunately you never know and now River is no longer with us. So I think that the members of the Academy should consider this, like when Leo DiCaprio was nominated for Gilbert Grape. Anyway, this is a MUST see movie, it´s definitely a classic!