Feeling Minnesota | | Cast : | Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Vincent D'Onofrio | | Director : | Steven Baigelman (II) | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | September 13, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | February 03, 2004 | | Language : | English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 27, 2005 | | Summary | Not a love story, A rather mildly entertaining tale | Content
 | The movie tries to make you 'feel' a love story but this is more about two brothers whose lives took dramatic twists after one of them got married under shady conditions. The story got compelling and interesting to watch near the end, but for the most part I fail to see the point of the movie. This movie is likely forgotten quickly. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 07, 2004 | | Summary | Twists and Turns | Content
| It starts off a little slow but about 3/4 of the way through it gets really interesting.
Good preformances.. but who taught Cameron Diaz how to drink a beer? |
| Rating | | | Date | December 22, 2003 | | Summary | A tale of transformation. | Content
| This is a remarkable movie, not only in it's unusual and very funny way of making the points that it does, but in that it is written from a point of view that is almost never seen from the all-too-privileged aristocracy to which most of the movie industry's writers and directors belong. This movie is almost painfully insightful into the mental state of hopelessness which traps people into sordid lives, particularly those who are raised in that sort of life and have never experienced anything else. The characters Jjaks and Freddie not only manage to envision a way out, together they fight their way to some measure of freedom in the end. They do so using the only tools and behaviors they know, which means that it is all very sordid indeed, but their goals are so much more noble than anything that could be expected from that environment, that it is very close to a miracle that they exist at all. It should be noted that those characters who have chosen to embrace the sordid life instead of resist it are relatively thriving at the beginning of the film (Sam, Ben Costikyan, etc.) Jjaks, who has been to prison before, may once have been like them, but if so, something must have happened to change him (before the story in the movie?). The movie shows Jjaks' transformation, opening his capacity for compassion and love for another, and finally gaining the courage to hope. Keanu Reeves really nails his character admirably, playing someone who feels more than is really safe to feel in his environment, and has developed a deeply engrained habit of hiding his feelings. Look carefully for the use of color to symbolize the different stages in his transformation, and the meaning of the dog too. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 05, 2003 | | Summary | Good one | Content
| This is quite nice movie, so I don't get it why it only has 3.5 stars average at this time. I like it and I am going to watch it again. |
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