The highs and lows of Keanu Reeves and celebrity Winona Ryder

Two ageless pin-ups of the Generation X era, two lovable lost souls, two improbable survivors. And even if rumours that Reeves and Ryder became awfully close on the set of their new movie The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee are almost certainly idle gossip, they kind of go together, don't they? In fact, why has it taken them so long? Steve Rose scans.

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cheerfully clueless dude with an instinctive ability for separating the excellent from the bogus

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Winona Veronica in Heathers: archetypal teen outsider heroine with a more 80s-tacular wardrobe than Cyndi Lauper let loose in the Miami Vice dressing room.

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Prone to getting his brain scrambled and losing his identity. Often says things that are either so deep they're dumb or so dumb they're deep.

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Winona Perceptive intellectual crumpet. Attracted to charismatic misfits whose inner beauty only she can see. Often has personality issues and cries a lot. Usually writes a diary.
Bram Stoker's Dracula Drawn together by their terrible British accents, Reeves and Ryder are actually engaged at the start of Coppola's operatic horror. But then Gary Oldman sticks his fangs in, seducing Winona with Slavic prose and freshly groomed wolves.

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A Scanner Darkly Nearly the happy couple once again, except they're too stoned and weirdly animated to get their romance on. Winona is the girlfriend of Keanu's hallucinating undercover narc. She's also his dealer. And possibly his boss. It gets confusing.