Mavin's Room

Marvin's Room(1996) Behind the Scenes

Bessie (Diane Keaton) and Lee (Meryl Streep) are brought together by leukemia

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Plot
Sisters who have be leading separate lives, are brought together when a doctor (Robert De Niro) tells one of the sisters, Bessie (Diane Keaton) that she has leukemia and will die without a bone marrow transplant. The other sister, Lee (Meryl Streep) has two sons, Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is put in an mental institution, and Charlie, the younger brother. Although they haven't spoken to each other in years, they are brought together by the possibility that Lee or the family may have a transplantable bone marrow. The reunion of Bessie and Lee brings tension between the family members but soon their love and compassion is tested finding each other.

De Niro picks DiCaprio
While trying to find the right actor for Hank, Robert De Niro picked Leonardo DiCaprio for the part. Again, DiCaprio was working with De Niro after first working with him in This Boy's Life.

Star-studded cast tell all

Meryl Streep on DiCaprio	"He's always compelling, you can't watch anything else when he's acting"
DiCaprio on Meryl Streep	"When she walks on the set, there is this aura that says, 'Don't mess with me.' She plays by her own rules. She's more than an actor. She's a presence. She does these really big movements and big noises. You wonder what she is up to, and you see the dailies and realize how right she was."
Diane Keaton on DiCaprio	"I admit it, I fell completely in love with him. He's great, he's beautiful--the guy has it all."

Streep Behaving Badly
Meryl Streep told the The Boston Herald that DiCaprio learned to be naughty when Streep said "I'm out of here." The incident was at 3 a.m. in "the 17th hour of shooting. It was my close-up . And this was a reshoot. And I though it was unnecessary. I was tired and looked like a hamburger and I

Bessie and her sister's older son Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio) start to bond.

knew that take would be the one they'd put in the movie. I was very badly behaved--and Leo loved it! He thought, 'That's the way I'm going to be!'"

Reviews
The critics were split, on the film's overall tale, but DiCaprio still seemed to shine where his acting was concerned.

"DiCaprio continues to prove himself one of the most adaptable and intelligent new faces on the scene."
--a reviewer of the film

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