My Name Is Joe Details

My Name Is Joe

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.

Starring	Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, Gary Lewis, Anne Marie Kennedy
Director	Ken Loach
Studio	FILM 4
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 40 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 01 May 2002 Production year: 1998
Format	DVD