First time watch. God, do I hate those early 90's mom jeans that everyone wears.

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Film #18 of the "Scavenger Hunt" Challenge!
Task #19 : A film featuring a physically or mentally challenged person!
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If you are looking for a serious film dealing with mental illness this would not be the film for you! However as a fairly lighthearted film with a bit of romance thrown into the mix, and touching ever so slightly on elements of mental illness it's actually turns out to be quite an amusing film!

For me the success of the film quite frankly is due to Johnny Depp! He plays an eccentric young man whom idolizes and mimic's Buster Keaton! His Buster Keaton-esque performances will put a smile on your face and lift up your heart!

"Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese..." -Joon,

500 miles? I mean maybe I'd walk a mile.

I didn't care for it. I don't like movies that dabble in whimsy... I want you to go the whole way or nothing at all. Benny and Joon could be an interesting movie to me. It's like a romantic pseudo-comedy spin on some A Woman Under the Influence vibes and that sounds like it has the potential to be awesome but I just found the whole thing boring and/or off. The portrayal of mental illness is really generic and whack, Aidan Quinn is the most boring actor of all time, there is not enough Johnny Depp being silly, and there are tons of lulls in the energy which made it difficult for me to care.

Underwhelmed.

Look, I love 90’s Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson was an angel in Fried Green Tomatoes, Some Kind of Wonderful and this. And that 500 miles song is shit on it’s own but in Benny & Joon it’s cute, so I dunno. Those Proclaimer guys look like Stephen King.

it doesn’t hit quite the same as when i was younger but i still really love some aspects of it, especially the stuff with benny and joon

anyway if i was to make this i’d make it about lesbians and benny would be gay 😌

It’s a kind of movie that you can see it again and again and it’s touched in some ways, i enjoyed Johnny’s  performance it was amazing and charming he was a little Chaplin here 🎩💫

A really sweet and endearing look at mental illness packaged up as a delightfully quirky romcom. Depp has made a career out of playing eccentric characters so naturally shines as Sam, a well dressed oddball with a talent for physical comedy in the vein of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

Its intentions are totally benevolent but if you look past the comedy and charming love story it does come across naive and slightly ignorant of its subject matter; it totally skims over Joon's illness. (We never actually find out what she has if I'm not mistaken).

If you're looking for realism you won't find it in Benny & Joon but I was won over by its whimsy and a brilliant early performance from Depp.

Johnny Depp would be an insufferable Film Twitter guy if this was made today

generally a pretty compassionate portrayal of mentally ill people, where they become something more than what their illness defines them as, where they’re not the constant butt of the jokes, and where they’re allowed to be super talented and fall in love without having to be told otherwise.   it’s not a game changer or perfect, but it’s just some really wholesome content accompanied with heartwarming performances.  I was worried the charm would wear off this film but it really stayed till the very end! infinite charm.  emphatic.  empathetic.  very good.

Hearing the “500 miles” song in the first scene with the beginning of the day, makes you full of energy. I felt my soul was dancing too.

The performance and characters were cool.
I like that short part of Johnny’s silent films, and I want to see him in full show ✨

One more thing, that version of poker game I love it 😂😂

Pretty good movie with an early career Johnny deep

Fun movie l! The cast is amazing! Johnny Depp is a great highlight. It’s a great date night movie.

A sweet and harmless romance with good performances.

The film loses its structure about 20 minutes in and a second romance is just plonked in without much effort but there is good chemistry from Depp & Masterson.

Johnny Depp harika bir oyuncu.

I love Johnny Depp in this role as Sam. Very quirky and fun movie with some drama and a great soundtrack.

win a cousin in a card game what a great house

mmr mrr maalesef sıkıcı ama johnny depp icin izlenir

youtu.be/9yXpYBVqFZk

Johnny Depp looked like the mad hatter... irony?

Simply lacking any worthwhile storytelling. Without the charisma of Johnny Depp, I wouldn’t have been able to finish Benny & Joon.

Me encanta el papel de depp acá, tiene esa vibra de chaplin o keaton que amo