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Rateds: PG, R; Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; With: Johnny Depp, Cary Elwes, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn and Roger Rees
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
BENNY & JOON (PG) A whimsical-but likable-heart tugger in which two couples spend 98 ever-so-slightly flaky minutes figuring out that they're perfect for each other. One of the couples is ''normal'': Benny (Aidan Quinn), a chivalrous mechanic, and Ruthie (Julianne Moore), a waitress. The other two are half- cocked eccentrics: Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), Benny's live-in sister, a schizophrenic who releases her feelings in abstract-expressionist paintings, and Sam (Johnny Depp), a moonstruck hippie man-child who fancies himself the second coming of Buster Keaton. Can Benny give Joon the space she needs to fall in love (and take said space for himself)? Benny & Joon isn't very well paced, and it's full of absurdist fripperies we're meant to find magically funny; mostly, they're just cute. Still, this wisp of a movie is a friendly, happy comedy, with some winning performers. B
Posted Apr 30, 1993
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