A good movie

I already saw this movie but since it was such a long time ago, I was quite eager to check it out again. In fact, I’m pretty sure I saw the damned thing in the movie theater when it was released at the time. Anyway, 20 years ago, when Johnny Depp was still considered as a box-office poison, he was also one of the most interesting actors at work at the time. Still, to be honest, before re-watching the damned thing, I was pretty sure it was probably not one of the best movies he made at the time (his track-record was back then pretty amazing). Well, I have to admit that I was actually really positively surprised by the damned thing, even after all these years. Indeed, on the paper, the whole thing sounded really ludicrous and there was no way that such a mix involving mental illness and a typical romance should have worked. And, yet, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the damned thing. Indeed, Johnny Depp was a perfect choice to play this character and even Marlon Brando delivered here one of the very decent performances when the end of his career was at the time pretty pathetic. Hell, even the sub-plot involving Brando's love life with Faye Dunaway was cute and effective. Eventually,  even though it was maybe not a masterpiece, it still must be one of the very few movies I have seen which really managed to mix so well something terribly serious like a mental patient with a whimsical romance and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Johnny Depp’s work.