Don Jon is a 2013 American romantic comedy-drama film[5] written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in his feature directorial debut.

The film stars Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, and Julianne Moore, with Rob Brown, Glenne Headly, Brie Larson, and Tony Danza in supporting roles.

She pushes Jon to take a nighttime community college class to obtain a career outside the service industry, and he indulges her love of romance films, which he dismisses as fantasy.

Jon takes great satisfaction in cleaning his apartment, but Barbara, considering it beneath him and insists he have her family's maid do the job.

Jon watches an increased amount of porn and becomes emotionally withdrawn and erratic which leads to an incident of road rage.

Esther says porn has given Jon a skewed idea of what real sex is, and he does not intimately connect with his partners because he focuses merely on his own satisfaction.

As neither of them is interested in conventional love or marriage, Jon and Esther happily begin dating and "lose" themselves when being intimate.

The website's critical consensus states: "Don Jon proves to be an amiable directing debut for Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and a vivacious showcase for his co-star, Scarlett Johansson.

[13] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore on its opening weekend gave Don Jon an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.

Entertainment Weekly managing editor Jess Cagle called the film "one of the best movies I saw at the fest" and wrote "Funny, touching, smart, and supremely confident, Don Jon is also Gordon-Levitt's feature directorial debut, and it establishes him as one of Hollywood's most exciting new directors.

[20][21] Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice praised the film, writing: There's no dancing in Gordon-Levitt's writing-directing debut, Don Jon, although the movie is so heavily reminiscent—in the good way—of Saturday Night Fever that an arm-swinging paint-can reverie wouldn't be out of place.