Benny & Joon 1993 123movies

Watch: Benny & Joon 1993 123movies, Full Movie Online – In Spokane, Washington, Juniper Pearl – Joon to those that know her – is an artist. She is also a mentally challenged young woman who requires around the clock care, as she could cause harm to herself or others. Her brother Benny Pearl, who owns and operates a garage and who is her only living relative since their parents died twelve years ago in a car accident, has made the decision that she would live at home with him, in the process sacrificing being able to have a personal life of his own. He has hired full-time housekeepers to provide that care when he isn’t around. However, he has exhausted the list of housekeepers, who keep quitting because Joon is too much to handle. As such, Benny makes the decision that perhaps it would be best for all concerned if Joon were to live in a group home, something he is hesitating telling her for fear of her reaction. Into their lives comes Sam, the eccentric cousin of Benny’s friend Mike, who they obtained from Mike in a losing hand of poker. Among his eccentricities, Sam has a penchant for bursting into Buster Keatonesque physical comedy routines. As Sam ultimately makes a connection with both Benny and Joon, he becomes a complicating factor in their lives as Benny evaluates Sam’s fitness to handle both the good and bad of Joon..
Plot: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 59,102
	76% | RottenTomatoes
	57/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 642 Popularity: 10.122 | TMDB

Reviews:

One of Johnny’s best
I have to say that I think Benny & Joon may be one of my favorite Johnny Depp films, along with Edward Scissorhands and Cry Baby. Unfortunately, you don’t hear too many people talk about B&J the way they do Johnny’s more high profile films, like Pirates of the Caribbean. This film is wonderful because it manages to tell the story of two mentally ill characters and never make them helpless victims. Instead, at their worst they’re merely troubled and interesting characters, and at their best they’re absolutely charming and heartwarming. Of course, Depp shines with his spot-on Chaplin impressions, and Masterson and Quinn are in top form as well. The real miracle of this film is that it is able to tell a story laced with realism through a whimsical lens, and it walks the tightrope of making one feel good without blatant reassurance. You believe Benny and Joon love one another without a gratuitous sex scene, (only a beautifully sensual one), and the viewer subsequently falls in love with everyone because this is a fine example of the way characters should be developed. Bravo to all involved!

A Homage To The Little Tramp
Though his character is very much the center of the film, its star Johnny Depp left it out of the title. Benny&Joon is a brother and sister played by Aidan Quinn and Mary Stuart Masterson. Depp’s character is Sam a man much influenced by Charlie Chaplin who comes into their lives and changes everything in this very gentle comedy.

You have to give credit where it’s due, Johnny Depp knew his talent, knew his worth, and was determined not to be pigeonholed as a teen idol that he was from his role in 21 Jump Street. He’s created one of the widest variety of bodies of work there is out there for a player and has both defied type casting and retained being a box office draw. In fact only recently and I’m sure the money was too insanely good to turn down was he repeating parts as Captain Jack Sparrow.

Benny is your average working man who has a garage and paints and repairs cars and he’s concerned about his sister Joon who is mentally disturbed. He’s the only family they both have, but her antics have left him with no life besides work and minding her. Part of his restricted social life is a really penny ante poker game with his cronies who all know him and his situation. They bet other things besides money. William H. Macy bets a weird cousin who has come to live with him and he loses Johnny Depp to Quinn.

But this very gentle soul who could be a cousin of Depp’s Edward Scissorhands sparks something in Masterson. Depp’s always doing his Charlie Chaplin shtick, but you don’t mind it because he’s so darn good at it. Anyway Quinn might just be able to get a life of his own now and fill it with Julianne Moore with whom he’d like to get something going with.

The year before Benny&Joon came out, Robert Downey, Jr. did his most critically acclaimed role as Charlie Chaplin in the film Chaplin for which he won an Oscar nomination. I’m willing to bet that Johnny Depp must have been up for the part and Benny&Joon just might have been his way of showing who was a better Chaplin.

And I’m also sure that Benny&Joon is also Johnny Depp’s way of a nice homage to one of the screen immortals he admires. Either way this quirky, but gentle comedy about life is a wonderful film and worth many viewings.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 23202734
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer Barry Berman, Lesley McNeil
Actors Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn
Country United States
Awards 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm