I have always been a fan of Johnny Depp, and I had never seen Benny & Joon;
thus, it was easy to select it from Amazon Prime's list of movies. I thoroughly enjoyed this most excellent movie from 1993. I enjoyed both the story and the good acting. Besides Johnny Depp, Benny & Joon stars include Mary Stuart Masterson, and Aidan Quinn.
Benny & Joon takes place in a small town in Washington State where mechanic Benny (Quinn) has devoted his life to taking care of his mentally ill younger sister Joon (Stuart Masterson). Their quiet small town existence has been working just well for them, even given Joon’s occasional fits, eccentric behavior, and inability to hold on to a housekeeper. But when Joon takes her brother’s place in his weekly poker game and loses, obliging him to take in his friend’s cousin Sam (Depp), things change pretty quickly.
Sam’s quirky behavior and devotion to Buster Keaton are fascinating to Joon and he is also a surprisingly good housekeeper. The two become quite close and romantically entangled without Benny’s knowledge, but when he finds out it forces the brother and sister to question the comfort zone they’d been living in for years.
I will say no more than I highly recommend that you watch this well-done film.