Gerry (2002 film)

Gerry is a 2002 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, who also cowrote the film with Van Sant. It is the first film of Van Sants Death Trilogy, three films based on deaths that occurred in real life, and is succeeded by Elephant 2003 and Last Days 2005.

Gerry follows two hiking companions who both go by the name Gerry. Gerry is also a slang term, used by both protagonists throughout the misadventure, meaning to screw up. Van Sant revealed in interviews that Damon, Affleck and his brother Ben had already coined the term before the movie had been named.The films plot shares some commonalities with the events surrounding the death of David Coughlin, who was killed by his friend after the two became lost in Rattlesnake Canyon in New Mexico. ........

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