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Please dont buy this movie!
This movie is horrible. It is so bad that when my husband and I went to see it in the movie theater we were the only people in the theater! We have never left a movie early before and we left this one 3/4 through. It is about a man running around having trists with women and that's it.

Diverting if not filling.
DON JUAN DEMARCO makes for a 90-plus minutes worth of taking your mind off your hard day at the office. Just don't mistake it for a masterwork.

It's fun to see Marlon Brando playing against type as a rumpled state psychiatrist intrigued by his new patient who claims to be the world's greatest lover and, judging by all of the women who long to be with him, seems to be able to back up that claim. Johnny Depp also is great fun to watch, as he suavely inhabits the role of the Don. And Faye Dunaway has a funny grace as Brando's wife, alternately bemused and charmed by her husband as he goes about bringing the romance back to their 32-year marriage. But the major problem with this film is that, good as they are individually, Brando and Depp don't really have the chemistry between them when they're onscreen together. You never get any sense of why the crusty Brando is so taken with Depp's Don, and that feels like a loose cog in what would otherwise have been a satisfying film. Brando and Dunaway, however, DO have that spark, and their onscreen pairing works quite well. And Depp DeMarco is so engaging on his own that he carries the viewer through any missteps.

So, a nice, charming little film that didn't set the world on fire when it was released initially but still makes for a nice low-key evening's entertainment, as long as you're in a forgiving mood.

Engaging, funny, and surprising
Johnny Depp pulls off a difficult role as a delusional but ultimately engaging and sympathetic young psychotic who thinks he is Don Juan. Marlon Brando is reminiscent of Richard Burton in "Equus" as a brilliant but burned out psychiatrist. But "Don Juan De Marco" is no equine tragedy, nor an equestrian romp. It does parallel Equus in contrasting the psychotic's prison of delusion and institutional walls with the about-to-retire shrink's confinement in bureaucracy and the cliches of suburbia.
But this is not harshly done, and don't expect any Brando soliloquies like Burton's diatribe about touring around Greece with a suitcase "crammed full of kaopectate."

Don Juan De Marco is a gentle comedy that contrasts the reality of the psychiatrist and the patient, reaching the admittedly cliche conclusion that each has much to learn from the other.

It's a fun film and a good addition to the lighter end of any film buff's collection.

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