Gus Van Sant's impulse to balance such career-maintaining features as GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997) with challenging, independently spirited American cinema is admirable, but it's led him to produce weird fringe fare nobody really wants to see. Case in point: this inscrutable and irritating follow-up to the people-pleasing FINDING FORRESTER (2000), in which two young men (played by boyhood chums Matt Damon and Casey Affleck) wander off into a vast desert, lose all sense of direction and can't find their way out — a frightening predicament the audience will soon experience first-hand. Neither one is actually named Gerry, though they occasionally address each other tha...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
103 mins