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the lost youth of Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho at 35 • Journal • A  Magazine • , Life in canada

The two actors had first met during the making of Ron Howard’s Parenthood, in which Reeves co-starred with Phoenix’s then-girlfriend Martha Plimpton and his brother Joaquin (credited at the time as Leaf Phoenix). Reeves and Phoenix first shared the screen in Lawrence Kasdan’s I Love You to Death the following year. As the legend goes, Reeves took it upon himself to get the script for My Own Private Idaho to Phoenix, riding his motorcycle 1,300 miles from Canada to Florida to deliver it by hand. Phoenix eventually agreed to join Idaho—but on the condition that Reeves would sign on as…

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