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My Name Is Joe (1998) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Sep 30, 1998
DVD Release Date
• R2: 1 May 2002
MPAA Rating
Rated R for pervasive language and some violence, sexuality and drug use.
Running Time
1 hour, 45 minutes
Country UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain
Studio Channel 4, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Glasgow Film Fund, Parallax Pictures, Road Movies Filmproduktion, Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund
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• My Name Is Joe
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Love, Drugs, Thieves, Urban
Plot: Peter Mullan (ORPHANS, MISS JULIE) won the Best Actor award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for his performance as Joe Kavanagh, a recovering alcoholic in his late thirties. Like half the people in his impoverished Glasgow neighborhood, he's unemployed and struggles to get by between odd jobs and the dole, along with coaching a ragtag soccer team largely consisting of delinquents. As difficult as his life may seem, he's buoyed by a willed optimism that he realizes is the only alternative to reverting to his addiction. When he's caught by a niggling unemployment official while doing the odd wallpapering job for social worker-nurse Sarah Downie (Louise Goodall), she helps to keep him from losing his sinecure. The two soon begin a tentative relationship, but Joe remains connected to his former life through his young friend Liam (David McKay), an ex-con and former addict. Mullan is utterly believable as another of social realist director Ken Loach's characters attempting to negotiate the tough climate of 1980s Great Britain.
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Ken Loach
Sweet Sixteen, Land and Freedom, Just a Kiss |
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Just a Kiss, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Speaking Parts | | | Gary Lewis
Gangs of New York, Billy Elliot, Shallow Grave | | |
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