375 – My Own Private Idaho

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

We’re finally pulling one of our most passionate entries to our 100 Snubs series, Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho. Adapted loosely from multiple Shakespeare plays (particularly both Henry IVs), the film follows an epileptic young sex worker named Mike (River Phoenix) as he drifts the globe with his loyal cohort Scott (Keanu Reeves). Van Sant … Continue reading

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:12.8	No, the right house.
0:13.6	I didn't get that.
0:14.7	We want to talk to Marilyn Hack.
0:15.8	Millen Hacks and Cran. I'm from Canada water.
0:27.6	Dick, Dick Pooh.
0:36.6	Dick Poop Always know where I am, by the way the road looks.
0:45.3	Look, I just know that I've been here before.
0:48.3	I just know that I've been stuck here.
0:56.0	Don't worry. Everything's gonna be all right.
0:58.0	I never thought I could make it as a real model.
1:02.0	You know, fashion-oriented modeling.
1:04.0	Trying to make a living.
1:06.0	Isn't that right, Mike?
1:08.0	What do you care about money?
1:09.0	You got plenty of money.
1:10.0	Actually, Mike is right.
1:11.7	I am going to inherit money. A lot of money. Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that's choosing to go to Skylar Jizondo's yacht party first. Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had Lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong.
1:29.7	The Oscar hopes died, and we are here to perform the about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong.
1:29.6	The Oscar hopes died, and we are here to perform the autopsy. I'm your host, Joe Reed. I'm here as always with my original narcoleptic...
1:37.3	Damn it. I'm your host, Joe Reed. I'm here as always with my original narcoleptic drag queen of the Pacific Northwest. Chris File, hello, Chris. When you think about it, Jinks Monson...
1:49.0	Jinks, River Phoenix, beat you to it.
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