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By Jess J (37) on 01 Oct 2006

This is the best movie in the world that no one knows about...FIND IT AND SEE IT!! ITS AWESOME…

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By Lori U (3) on 25 Sep 2006

One of River Phoenix's last film I ever saw him in... Just a really nice film…

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By Girlybat H (60) on 25 Sep 2006

One of River Phoenix's last film I ever saw him in... Just a really nice film…

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By Joe Pollack (26) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 23 Sep 2006

But at the center of the film is an actor whose mind and heart are far, far away, and he is like a black hole, consuming light and energy…

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By Joy J (45) on 16 Sep 2006

This is the movie that made me really like country music and want to move to Nashville…

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By Brian F (743) on 14 Sep 2006

Mathis is great but the film never quite works. What happened to Bogdanovich…

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By Lena I (3) on 10 Sep 2006

This is a great drama with a young and very likeable cast…

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By Marwa B (2) on 28 Aug 2006

I adored river and I still do,and that movie was great…

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By Dawni C (34) on 27 Aug 2006

Something about this movie makes me love it…

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By David S (4,459) on 19 Aug 2006

Samantha Mathis plays a struggling country singer songwriter…

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By Richelle X (3) on 10 Aug 2006

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. This movie is one of my most favoured movies ever. I love the whole cast, mostly River Phoenix and Dermot Mulroney…

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By Rachel F (443) on 28 Jun 2006

River's last movie... Aand I love it…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 05 Apr 2006

Nothing terribly new happens here, but Bogdanovich plays out his scenes with tenderness and affection, and the honest performances spring to life…

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By Geoff Andrew (550) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Feb 2006

Bogdanovich's modest staging is occasionally awkward -- his kids still watch John Wayne movies at the drive-in -- but there's a convincing…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Feb 2005

Mathis and Bullock are especially good, and Phoenix and Mulroney, playing out a jealousy-prone friendship as if they were Jeff Bridges and…

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By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 07 Dec 2000

Phoenix is fine in an odd, transitional role, but Mathis (who looks more like his sister than his girlfriend) really steals the show with a…

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By Louis Black (103) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jan 2000

River Phoenix gives a somnambulant impersonation of Christian Slater impersonating Jack Nicholson, and Samantha Mathis spends much of the movie…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 01 Jan 2000

Aside from its blatantly commercial aspirations and predictable storyline, there is an appealing cast, enjoyable songs and some funny bits…

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By Matt Mueller (72) for Empire (3,446) on 07 Jul 1997

Thin and predictable, and a flop of awesome proportions in the US, this has occasional bursts of freshness, but mostly leaves you with the…

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By David Baron (32) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 09 May 1994

You sense River Phoenix would rather be elsewhere, and whether he’s responding to the movie or to something larger is not ours to say…

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