Benny & Joon (1993)
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Benny & Joon (1993)
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Released Year: 1993
Runtime: 98 minutes
Directors: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writers: Barry Berman, Lesley McNeil
Casts: Johnny Depp, Dan Hedaya, William H. Macy, Oliver Platt, CCH Pounder, Julianne Moore, Noon Orsatti, Aidan Quinn, Mary Stuart Masterson, Joe Grifasi, Eileen Ryan, Lynette Walden, Liane Curtis, Waldo Larson, Don Hamilton, Leslie Laursen, John Grant Phillips, Irvin Johnson, Shane Nilsson, Faye Killebrew, Ramsin Amirkhas, Amy Alizabeth Sanford, Brian Keevy, Tony Lincoln, Dan Kamin, Gregory Cook, Aaron Haedt
IMDB: Benny & Joon (1993)
Storyline
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
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Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times -
Benny and Joon is a film that approaches its subjects so gingerly it almost seems afraid to touch them. The story wants to be about love, but is also about madness, and somehow it weaves the two together with a charm that would probably not be quite so easy in real life.
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Entertainment Weekly -
Benny & Joon turns out to be a whimsical (and not very well paced) heart tugger in which two nice couples spend 98 ever-so-slightly flaky minutes figuring out that they’re perfect for each other.
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The New York Times -
Benny and Joon is a dangerously fanciful story of cute eccentrics, characters whose quirks are the very essence of their appeal. Some of us experience a form of red alert at the very notion of adorable oddballs on screen, but Benny and Joon turns out to be remarkably benign in that regard.
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Los Angeles Times -
This sentimental stew is not without its flavors, and the cast tries hard to be winsome and adorably distraught.
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Time Out London -
Another one flies over the cuckoo's nest in this soft-hearted romantic three-hander. It's acted out in the secondary emotional register of the glass menagerie: whimsical, delicate, idiosyncratic, barmy.
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