‘Don Jon’ Trailer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Needs Some “Good Vibrations”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Jon Martello, a beef head addicted to online porn until his new girlfriend challenges him to change his ways.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Jon Martello, a beef head addicted to online porn until his new girlfriend challenges him to change his ways.
'Don Jon's Addiction,' the directorial debut from Joseph Gordon-Levitt, explores the ways in which rom-coms and porn might both be creating unreasonable expectations for women and men alike -- but neither form of media is mutually gender exclusive and both can be damaging, if we allow it.
Before I write anything else about 'Don Jon's Addiction': yes, there are some guys in Northern New Jersey who really do act this way. Some of the particulars are exaggerated, but not really. Whether the interior life of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's protagonist gym rat, club denizen, muscle car driver is accurate is something I'll never know, and considering the emotional dysfunction on display, I think I'm okay with it.
It's good to be Brie Larson. She's got a busy plate of movies ahead of her, is coming off '21 Jump Street' and has been added to the already stellar cast of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 'Don Jon's Addiction.' There she'll be playing Gordon-Levitt's sister.