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My Name Is Joe
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Release Date: July 15, 2008
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Lionsgate
Theatrical Release Date: January 22, 1999
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Rating:  - IT'S A LONG WAY TO PARADISE
British director Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE earned an award at the 1998 Cannes Film festival (Peter Mullan in the Best Actor category) and a few other prizes in European film festivals. After Carla's Song, it was the second time Ken Loach was working with script writer Paul Laverty. Like A Fond Kiss or Ladybird Ladybird [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ], MY NAME IS JOE belongs to the cycle of films Ken Loach dedicated to the present social situation of Great Britain.
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Rating:  - Peter Mullan's Riveting portrayal of addiction in Bitter, Bonnie Scotland
This is a rough film...no sugar coating...gritty and in reality as they come!.
Peter Mullan delivers a most riveting performance as Joe Kavanagh, a man ten months sober in AA, struggling in the welfare district of Glasgow, Scotland to survive and turn his life around. He coaches a welfare soccer team, goes to his 12-step meetings and does painting jobs on the sly in order to make ends meet. Life really takes a turn for the best when he meets social worker Sarah Downie (Louise Goodall).Their ... Read More
Rating: - incredible and moving
wow, am i surprised to find this movie on here. no one knows about this movie (at least in america). it's set in scotland and i think it has subtitles even though the characters speak english, so you can understand what they're saying. this movie is totally amazing. i'll never forget it. it's probably the most real romance i've ever seen.. the guy is a charming, poor, recovering addict who falls in love with an ordinary, caring social worker. but there's a problem.. joe needs money, and he can get ... Read More
Rating: - Loach at his political best - and ignore the Houston review !
Contrary to the right-wing crap espoused in the Houston, TX review, this work underscores the very raison d'etre of a Loach film - good, solid, honorable, decent working-class lives, brutalized by the horrors of international capitalism - the horrific choices they face each day, in pursuit of food, shelter, companionship and self-respect, and the oft tragic costs meted out to them, for these basic necessities of every-day life. If you come out of the theater having witnessed a Loach film, and still hold any ... Read More
Rating: - Powerful and powerfully moving
Pain. Redemption. Addiction. Sacrifice. Recovery. Death. Money. Life. Sex. Love. Rage. Unemployment. Crime. Honor.
This film has it all, one of the most powerful stories I've ever seen with "real" people, not stereotypical cutouts so beloved by lazy filmmakers and studio suits. The story chronicles the struggles of "Joe," a recovering alcoholic as he attempts to crawl back out of Hell and into honesty, hope, love, honor, daylight. It's not a pretty film in the sense of being "...and they all lived happily ... Read More
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