Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman), a young woman from a small town, wants to realise her dream at whatever cost: to become a famous TV personality. She is dissatisfied with her marriage to Larry (a role by Matt Dillon) and embarks on her great career plans by worming her way into a job at the local TV station. She decides to make a documentary about young people with the aid of three children who don’t have many hopes for the future. She develops a powerful and dangerous bond with Jimmy, Russell and Lydia. In the end, things get so out of hand that the allegedly idyllic life in the outer suburbs becomes a nightmare when her ambition turns into an obsession. In this black comedy we see America through the eyes of a woman driven by blind ambition as she drowns in her weird view of reality. It is the first relatively well-budgeted film by the idiosyncratic American director Gus van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho), who did not write his own script on this occasion.
Film details
Productieland
USA
Jaar
1995
Festivaleditie
IFFR 1996
Lengte
106'
Medium/Formaat
35mm
Taal
English
Première status
-
Director
Gus Van Sant
Producer
Laura Ziskin
Principal cast
Casey Affleck, Alison Folland, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix