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My Own Private Idaho
Why this pick
Van Sant again pairs drifting Pacific Northwest lives with intimate, unvarnished tenderness, using a loose, dreamlike structure and compassionate attention to people on the margins.
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MOVIE1989 1h 41m USA
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Why this pick
For the quieter side of Drugstore Cowboy: a spare Northwestern road story that finds dignity and aching humanity in precarious circumstances without forcing sentiment.
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Down by Law
Why this pick
Its shabby criminal milieu, deadpan humor, and affection for misfits echo Drugstore Cowboy’s ability to make a small outlaw world feel funny, melancholy, and oddly communal.
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Trees Lounge
Why this pick
This rueful, funny portrait of self-sabotage among working-class regulars shares the earlier film’s dry humor, episodic wandering, and refusal to simplify addiction or failure.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1971, Bob Hughes leads a crew of drug addicts - his wife Dianne, his best friend Rick, and Rick's teenage girlfriend Nadine - traveling across the Pacific Northwest and robbing pharmacies and hospitals to support their habits.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kelly Lynch
Dianne
Heather Graham
Nadine
James Remar
Gentry
John Kelly
Cop
Neal Thomas
Halamer
Grace Zabriskie
Mrs. Hughes
Matt Dillon
Robert "Bob" Hughes
James Le Gros
Rick