Don Juan DeMarco

Director: Jeremy Leven Jeremy Leven

Overview

"Johnny Depp stars as the troubled man who just might be the greatest lover of all time in this exciting, feature-intensive release from New Line Home Video. Offering viewing options in both the original 1.85:1 widescreen theatrical version or standard 1.33:1 full-screen pan-and-scan, this release also features an English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio mix in addition to an alternate French Dolby Digital Stereo mix and optional English, Spanish, and French subtitles. Abundant extra features include star highlights featuring clips from three other New Line films, original and international theatrical trailers, the Bryan Adams video ""Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?"", an isolated stereo track of the original score, and cast and crew biographies and filmographies."

Product Details

Release Date:	02/24/1998
UPC:	0794043463624
Original Release:	1995
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	New Line Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Full Frame, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:32:00
Sales rank:	28,984

Special Features

Both widescreen and full-frame versions of the film; Star highlights featuring clips from three other New Line films; Original and international theatrical trailers; Number One hit music video from Bryan Adams, "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?"; Isolated stereo-audio track of the film score; Cast biographies, filmographies, and full-motion menus

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Marlon Brando	Jack Mickler
Johnny Depp	Don Juan DeMarco
Faye Dunaway	Marilyn Mickler
Geraldine Pailhas	Dona Ana
Bob Dishy	Dr. Paul Showalter
Rachel Ticotin	Dona Inez
Talisa Soto	Dona Julia
Marita Geraghty	Woman in Restaurant
Tresa Hughes	Grandmother DeMarco,Grandmother DeMarco
Stephen Singer	Dr. Bill Dunsmore
Franc Luz	Don Antonio
Carmen Argenziano	Don Alfonzo
Jo Champa	Sultana Gulbeyaz
Esther Scott	Nurse Alvira
Nada Despotovich	Nurse Gloria
Gilbert Lewis	Judge Ryland
Tiny Lister	Rocco Compton
Tom Mardirosian	Baba the Eunuch
Al Corley	Woman's Date
Nick LaTour	Nicholas the Doorman
Bill Capizzi	Sultan
Patricia Mauceri	Dona Querida
Cliff Weissman	Delivery Man No. 1
Michael Malota	Young Don Juan
Renee Sicignano	Flower Girl
Trevor Long	Waiter
Sanjay Chandani	Auctioneer
Diane Lee	Night Duty Nurse
Joni Kramer	Nurse No. 1
Shirlee Reed	Nurse No. 2
Ken Gutstein	Doctor No. 1
Adriana Jardini	Social Worker
Robert Polanco Rodriguez	Priest
Roberta Danza	Nun
Bridget Mariano	Nun
Christine Wolfe	Nun
Jose Hernandez	Nun
Selena Perez	Singer
Rosendo Casillas	Mariachi Band Member
Esperanza DonLucas	Mariachi Band Member
Ramirez Filberto	Mariachi Band Member
Santiago Garcia	Mariachi Band Member
Ernesto V. Molina	Mariachi Band Member
Fernando C. Moreno	Mariachi Band Member
Richard C. Sarafian	Det. Sy Tobias
Sanjay	Auctioneer
Sara Mansfield	Harem Girl
Michael Kamen	Composer
Robert John Lange	Composer

Technical Credits

Jeremy Leven

Jeremy Leven	Director,Screenwriter
Francis Ford Coppola	Producer
James Fredburg	Special Effects
Fred Fuchs	Producer
Lynn Kressel	Casting
Patrick Palmer	Producer
Victor Paul	Stunts
Ruth Vitale	Executive Producer
Michael DeLuca	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

When dealing with psychological disorders in film, it's a fine line indeed between whimsical and preposterous. Think how absurd a film like Rain Man (1988) could have been in less capable hands (think too hard on it and you'll probably end up with something that looks a whole lot like 1999's double-serving of cinematic cheese, Molly and The Other Sister). Screenwriter and sometime-director Jeremy Leven has a particular problem with recognizing the border between the engagingly offbeat and the fatuous, as his scripts for Creator (1985) and The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) clearly demonstrate, seesawing wildly as they do from one tone to another, frustrating in their sheer first-draftness. Leven's directorial debut Don Juan DeMarco (1995) is not enough of an exception, but the comedy-drama admirably generates enough charm to make a convincing argument that the writer/director should get behind the camera for more of his own scripts. Many of the film's plot developments are as patently balmy as its central character, but leads Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando seem to be having such a good time that one would have to be a major sourpuss to care. Pacing, music, Depp's vanity, the oddball flirtations between Brando and Faye Dunaway (as his perplexed but delighted wife), and especially the writer/director's central assertion that nothing is more flat-out nuts than love, all combine to make an entertaining diversion aimed squarely at the non-cynic. Leven's film is told with such peppery gusto that it ends up being the artistic equivalent of the family black sheep: a bit of a pill, a tax upon one's intellectual patience at times, but ultimately too truthful and too much jovial fun to dislike.