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Benny & Joon
Directed by
Jeremiah S. Chechik
PG
1993
1h 38m
Comedy
,
Drama
,
and more
7.1
76%
85%
Rent for $3.99
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
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Cast of Benny & Joon
Johnny Depp
Sam
Mary Stuart Masterson
Juniper 'Joon' Pearl
Aidan Quinn
Benjamin 'Benny' Pearl
Julianne Moore
Ruthie
Oliver Platt
Eric
CCH Pounder
Dr. Garvey
Dan Hedaya
Thomas
Joe Grifasi
Mike
William H. Macy
Randy Burch
Liane Curtis
Claudia
Eileen Ryan
Mrs. Smail
Lynette Walden
Female Customer
Waldo Larson
Waldo
Don Hamilton
UPS man
Leslie Laursen
Admitting Nurse
John Grant Phillips
Policeman
Irvin Johnson
Orderly
Shane Nilsson
Orderly
Faye Killebrew
Video Customer
Ramsin Amirkhas
Video Clerk
Amy Alizabeth Sanford
Young Joon
Brian Keevy
Young Benny
Tony Lincoln
Local
Noon Orsatti
Patron
Dan Kamin
Patron
Gregory Cook
Guy in the Park (uncredited)
Aaron Haedt
Bicyclist (uncredited)
Benny & Joon Ratings & Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Inconsequential as it is, Benny & Joon is that rare thing, a crazy-versus-sane movie that likes one kind as much as the other.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie suggests that love and magic can overcome madness, and for at least the length of the film I was prepared to accept that. Much of the credit for that goes to Depp...
Variety
Emanuel Levy
As the outsider who courts the mentally ill Mary Stuart Masterson, Johnny Depp renders a startling performance that elevates the romantic fable way above its writing and directing shortcomings; look for the young Julianne Moore in a small part.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Benny & Joon wears its sensitivity on its sleeve and though it's a little hard to take at times, these actors make it all passable.
Los Angeles Times
Peter Rainer
This sentimental stew is not without its flavors, and the cast tries hard to be winsome and adorably distraught.
Associated Press
Patricia Bibby
There's something vaguely unsettling about ''Benny & Joon,'' a film that's billed innocuously as a ''charming, offbeat comedy'' that actually is about a woman suffering from mental illness.
Newsweek
David Ansen
This fierce, smart jape gets you shaking with laughter, then leaves you simply shaking.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Mr. Depp may look nothing like Buster Keaton, but there are times when he genuinely seems to become the Great Stone Face, bringing Keaton's mannerisms sweetly and magically to life.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The cast is defeated by a cloying Barry Berman script that Jeremiah Chechik directs with the same flair for the obvious he brought to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
[Chechik] has crafted Benny & Joon not as a seamless whole but as a tumble of scenes. Unfortunately, too many of them are inspired by Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton, and they seem to spill from the screen like Bozos from a kiddie car.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Riddled with insufferably contrived zaniness ... it deals as deeply with mental illness as The Sound of Music explored the genocidal advance of the Third Reich.
Moviehole
Caffeinated Clint
Johnny Depp gives another head-turning performance in this sweet, sweet comedy
Hartford Courant
Malcolm Johnson
For all of its color and characters and fine details, Benny & Joon adds up to less than the sum of its parts.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
Any film that features Johnny Depp performing salutes to the great silent comedians (and, in particular, Buster Keaton) deserves a little slack... [Blu-ray]
TV Guide
If the performances were as cute and sweet as the characters, the film would need a warning label. But Depp's Sam is delicately touching, a maladjusted waif with both soul and grit, and Masterson resists the temptation to soften Joon.
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