Benny & Joon

When Joon plays poker, she asks for two cards--one can be seen as being a black card.

When she shows her hand, she has five hearts.

When Sam and Joon are on the bus, in one shot Sam has his arm on his cane, but the next shot his arm is around Joon.

In the park, when Benny goes to help Sam up, his tie is not tied, but hanging loosely.

In the next shot it is tied again When the female customer in the auto body shop asks Benny out for dinner, her necklace is tucked into her shirt.

In the next shot, the necklace is out of her shirt.

Joon's medical records list her address as Water Street, but later on her Medical Alert Card shows that she lives on Cedar Street.

In the bedroom scene where Benny and Joon start singing, Joon lies back on her pillow, but in the next shot the pillow has changed positions though Joon hasn't.

Joon lights a tissue and Benny stamps it out wearing sneakers.

Moments later he's wearing Oxfords when he flushes the dead goldfish.

Joon's bangs change length on her forehead several times throughout the film.

During the meal at the beginning of the film Joon sits at the table with her knee at the level of her chin.

The skirt changes layout between shots, covering and uncovering the knee.

In the scene when they are leaving the park, Benny is supposed to thank Sam for his uplifting performance, but before he starts to say thank you, Sam starts saying "no, no, thank you", causing Benny to have to squeeze his comment in while Sam is still talking.

While Sam is swinging back in forth in the hospital window, the window alters from open to closed in various shots.

When Sam throws his hat to leave ajar the door to the restricted area of the hospital where Joon is being kept, he picks it up from the outside and lets the door swing shut, which would not have allowed him to enter this area.

"Not so often we have a mentally disturbed protagonist in a movie who is not confined in a dismal asylum, still that option hangs there like a ticking bomb which Benny mulls over constantly, on the one hand, while their life is not by any rate, uncomfortable (Benny is a garage owner), he feels opportunity of any romance is snuffed by the noble responsibility of taking care of Joon (but that is not strictly the case), and on the other hand, this selfless deed serves him greatly, as a dedicated caretaker, a self-sacrificing brother, Benny really enjoys his heroic devotion, even during a date with potential love interest Ruthie (Moore), he is compelled to let that out to elevate himself above his peers, "my life is complicated...." which is sharply rebuked by Ruthie, who is more than the nice neighborly girl one might expect her to be, and knows how to draw the line.

Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik.

I'd suggest one minor adjustment to make this film worthwhile: retitle to "Jenny and Boon", and retool the plot, changing it to a story about a woman named Jenny and her baboon sanctuary.

A lovely little film, beautifully made and depicting mental illness in all its complexities extraordinarily well. I.

Small town auto mechanic Benny Pearl (Aidan Quinn) dutifully takes care of his mentally ill sister Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson). He can't keep a house cleaner because of her.

This is, in my opinion, Johnny Depp's best performance.

It's a good premise for a movie, and an interesting thought. However I'd have liked it more if Joon was a likeable character.

Hollywood has often been accused of trivialising metal illness, but here it really takes the cake. Sam, as portrayed by Johnny Depp, is a certifiable nutcase who nevertheless has memorised routines by the likes of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, which he repeats to general acclaim.

Excellent movie. Johnny Depp shines in this quirky love story.