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Don Jon
Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old-fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn't compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old-fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she's determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old-fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a media culture full of false fantasies to try and find true intimacy in this unexpected comedy written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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[A] deceptively sincere movie about masculinity and its discontents that Mr. Gordon-Levitt, making a fine feature directing debut, shapes into a story about a young man's moral education.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 09.26.2013 -
At least 80% of it is snappy, droll fluff, while the other 20% is what you get when you persuade Julianne Moore to be in your movie: in a word, better.
Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine, 09.27.2013 -
Who would have thought one of the most amusing and oddly insightful romantic comedies would be built around the power and the potent pull of porn?
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times, 09.27.2013 -
The movie becomes increasingly soft-edged and sappy.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 09.27.2013