Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy Reeves was unfairly nominated for a wretched Golden Raspberry for his performance as the scheming Don John, but he is one of the most pleasing things about Kenneth Branagh's clumsily directed Shakespeare romcom. And, variously shirtless (for a massage scene) and wearing tight-fitting leather trousers, definitely the hottest.
With River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho. Photograph: Warner Bros Inc 17. My Own Private Idaho (1991) River Phoenix plays a narcoleptic gay hustler in love with Reeves' privileged rich kid in Gus Van Sant's road movie, now revered as a new queer cinema landmark. For the most part, they are great, but when they start trading dialogue from Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, it gets a bit clunky and pretentious.
Bertolucci portrays the search for a reincarnated lama to insipid effect. But who better to play Siddhartha in the film's flashbacks than Keanu Reeves, taking kohl and hair extensions in his stride, not to mention repurposing a king cobra for use as an umbrella?
Diane Keaton plays a successful playwright torn between Jack Nicholson, who has a heart attack at her Long Island home during sex with her daughter, and Reeves, his bodacious doctor. Ooh, tough choice! The writer-director Nancy Meyers steers the laziest route possible through this mature romantic triangle, redeemed by its likable cast.
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