i think it a wonderful movie and it be unjustly underestimated representit oneiric and sentimental and poetic and the dramatic plot be deal with a sense of humour . there be various issue like male bonding and homosexuality and friendship and i think every role be proper for the actor who play it representmy favourite actor john malkovich ( great ) be a homosexual with some existential problem and he fall in love with marty ( michael zelniker ) and they get engage at the end of the film while dennis ( kevin bacon ) have in vain try to get successful in hollywood a a musician and al ( joe mantegna ) grow up thanks of jamie lee curtis and vinny ( tony spiridakis ) dream to become an actor and ray ( ken olin ) a painter . even if the dream of some of these guy do not come through and their strong and profound tie be the reason to continue to hope in the future . i also think the title be the only very funny thing of the movie ( in italian language it dream manhattan ) but the film succeed to alternate melancholy and thoughtless scene representmantegna climb up the bridge which link astoria to manhattan and ken olin listens to his message i love you guy while he think about his life and kevin bacon and michael zelniker play ordinary people song while zelniker and malkovich look at each other and malkovich jilt terry kinney and who have fall in love with him and because he doesn not like the way he talk about his friend ( when kinney ask him if those guy be his type and he reply that i do not know but they be the best i could do ) and tony spiridakis howl with a healer without a reason and tom wait read his odd poem at jack and jamie lee curtis take mantegna gun and learn him to throw all away and chloe webb tell madame rise and a palmist and she surround by idiot and the five boy shout out arnold name while theyre have a bath under hellgate during the night because he be the only guy and apart from mantegna and who climb up that bridge and they do not see linda fiorentino steal their clothes out of spite and because her husband mantegna spend all his time with his friend ( he also kiss john malkovich at the disco ) . well and these guy be amaze . they be either crazy or gay and either sad or happy and sometimes they make you cry and sometimes they make you amuse . personally i be a depressed sixteen year old girl when i saw this movie for the first time on a night during last summer and it make me dream representthis movie be everything for me and it let me to take refuge in another world and it make me isolate from my reality and whom i hate as much a i can and but fortunately i be not here and i be under hellgate bridge to dream with other queen . i thank tony spiridakis and who write the story and and all the actor very much for this wonderful movie .