High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Benny & Joon is a 1993 romantic comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about how two eccentric individuals, Sam (Johnny Depp) and Juniper "Joon" (Mary Stuart Masterson), find each other and fall in love. The film is perhaps best known for Depp`s humorous physical comedy routines (which are based on silent film comics Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin) and for popularizing, in the United States, the song "I`m Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers. The film was shot entirely on location in Spokane, Washington.