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My Name Is Joe
1998
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 .. Read more
| Starring | David McKay, Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay |
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| Director | Ken Loach |
| Genres | Drama |
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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 | David McKay, Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, Gary Lewis, Anne Marie Kennedy |
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| 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 | Production year: 1998 To Rent: DVD: 01 May 2002 |
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Grim, compassionate account of deprivation, and the desperation of poverty, in which only the energy of Mullan's performance offers any optimism for the future.
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- Halliwell's Film Guide
- 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
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Heart of Glasgow
This film reverberates with echoes of Glasgow that travel brochures never talk about. Men just like Joe are everywhere and nowhere.
It's ... read more » - 3720
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[Highly rated reviewer]
- Karin Grant
- Glasgow, Scotland
- 25 Mar 2004 at 23:18
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Grim but great
Hard and uncompromising life-styles are portrayed in this typical Loach film. The story line takes you through the hopeless lives of some and the little crack ... read more »
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- Seaton
- 07 Feb 2011 at 15:54
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Gritty drama
Not one for a bundle of laughs , but the realism of the characters and their situation comes oozing through. Recommended for those who can understand Glasgow ... read more »
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- artflixfan
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- Hertfordshire
- 23 Jul 2010 at 11:01
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Incomprehensible accents
Football, junkies, impenetrable Scottish accents... avoid.
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- Hillingdon, England
- 04 Mar 2010 at 15:43
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Looking For Eric
- 11 Jun 2009
Right, so, first things first: Eric Cantona is actually IN this film – it’s not just footie footage, or some clever CGI jiggery-pokery to make it look like he was there. I rather doubt that director Ken Loach has much truck with all that computerised mucking about anyway. Because this is very definitely a Ken Loach film. There’s the kitchen-sink realism of Carla’s Song or My Name Is Joe and the unflinching script of The Wind That Shakes The Barley, as we meet Eric... Read more
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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 ...
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