The title comes from a rock song: 'I just looked in the mirror. Things aren't looking so good/I'm looking California/And feeling Minnesota.' But Minnesota is where Steven Baigelman's debut feature happens, in a bleak, cold suburb where two brothers - Keanu Reeves and Vincent D'Onofrio - come to blows yet again after a lifetime of feuding. Then, when Jjaks (Reeves) runs off with Freddie (Cameron Diaz), the woman Sam (D'Onofrio) is about to marry, mere conflict becomes murderous vengeance.
'It's unique, it's extreme and it's romantic,' says Reeves, explaining what drew him to Feeling Minnesota, which also features rock icon Courtney Love, widow of Kurt Cobain, in a large supporting role.
Stacey Sher of Jersey Films, whose recent roster includes Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty and Matilda, always knew that Baigelman was the only one to direct his own screenplay. 'There was a real voice and sensibility at work in that screenplay,' she says. 'It's a bittersweet quality which - not to be pretentious - reminded me of Midnight Cowboy. In fact, Midnight Cowboy came to mind for all of us.'
Prod co: Jersey Films
Prod: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher
Dir/Guión (Scr): Steven Baigelman
Foto (Ph): Walt Lloyd
Art dir (Prod des): Naomi Shohan
Mus: Karyn Rachtman
Mont (Ed): Martin Walsh
Ints (Cast): Keanu Reeves, Vincent D'Onofrio, Cameron Diaz, Dan Aykroyd, Tuesday Weld, Delroy Lindo, Courtney Love
Ventas (Sales): New Line International
Programación (Screening): 17.00, 27 Sept, Principe 2; 20.30, 27 Sept, Astoria 1; 18.30, 28 Sept, Principe 4
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