River of Grass

River of Grass 1994 is the debut film of American director Kelly Reichardt, who also wrote the screenplay. It was selected for the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 1994, and for three Independent Spirit Awards in 1996.

Cozy is a dissatisfied housewife in her thirties who feels no emotional connection with her children. After getting dressed up to go to a bar she is nearly run over by Lee. Inside Lee buys Cozy a drink. He convinces her to break into a friends home where they swim in a pool and Lee shows Cozy the gun that he was given by a friend who found it by the side of the road. While Lee shows Cozy how to use the gun the owner of the pool comes out to investigate and the gun goes off. Believing they have killed the man Cozy and Lee go on the run together.Reichardt grew up in the part of Florida the film depicts. She has described the film as a road movie without the road, a love story without the love, and a crime story without the crime. Her subsequent films, such as Wendy and Lucy and Meeks Cutoff, involve similar themes, of people trying to leave a place but frustrated by their lack of resources. Of that theme, Reichardt said I guess its just a good setup for different kinds of searching questionasking, looking for the next place to go, what are you looking for, what are you leaving. All those things are good for grounding it in getting from point A to point B. ........

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