Genres: Adventure | Drama

Actors: Casey Affleck | Matt Damon

Directors: Gus Van Sant

Plot: A friendship between two twenty-something men is tested to its very limits when they go on a hike in a desert and forget to bring any water or food with them.

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The plot, such as it is, concerns two friends (played by co-writers Matt Damon and Casey Affleck). After a brief, half-hearted search for what they call "the thing," the guys become lost in a desert (the film was shot in Argentina, Death Valley, and Utah’s salt flats). Each calls the other "Gerry," and each uses the term "gerry" to denote a fuck up (as in, "I thought maybe you’d gerried the rendezvous"). Their friendship is assumed, as if they’ve known one another so long that they needn’t finish sentences or even really start them. They understand one another.

But they also don’t. Too similar and too isolated, they drift together and apart, attuned and detached in time. This is the story of two boys, each caught in his own stoic resistance, his own hostile universe. Gerry traces their gradual, necessary coming to terms with what they can never know, and what they must (Cynthia Fuchs).