My Own Private September.

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"Well, Ang, The Hulk tanked. But hey, that Bareback Mountain thing did great business. Have you considered a followup? Ang Lee, gay cowboys ..."
    - studio head

"Fuck off."
    - Ang Lee

My Own Private September, Ang Lee's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts I and II, features River Phoenix as a narcoleptic net.bum sysadmin who is first seen drifting on a stretch of information superhighway in Usenet around the thousandth of the Eternal September of 1993 with a 2400-baud modem, a dumb terminal and a dialup line to his old university account for as long as it lasts.

River shifts from Usenet to Usenet II, where he has taken up with Keanu Reeves, who is also a sysadmin. The difference between them is River's sleepy state betrays an uncertain future, while Keanu is ready to cash in a dot-com fortune within a week. River feels a real affection for Keanu, but Keanu does not believe system administrators can really love each other. Besides, Keanu is mostly sysadminning as a means of slumming and killing time before his options vest and he gets his omg l33t Matrix p0w3rz whoah!

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