Advantages: Realism films can be a humbling experience Disadvantages: Sometime sordid and brutal reality
With films like 'Poor Cow','Kes','Family Life' under his belt, 'My name is Joe,' is another of Ken Loach's look at social realism.
Do-gooder and recovering alcoholic,Joe,has spent the best part of a decade crawling back from his addiction. Peter Mullan who plays Joe, won the best actor prize at Cannes for his performance.
On the dole and living in a soul destroying Glasgow estate, he passes time by coaching youngsters each week. It's during this ... ...Goodall on her check on one of Joe's friends kids.
After a vitriolic exchange Joe bumps into Sarah again and offers to wallpaper her residence and this causes someone to call in the unemployment inspectors for working while claiming benefit.
Sarah manages to get him off by writing to the authorities explaining he was never paid for his assistance.
Joe also helps out his friend Liam after his partner Sabine starts doing all sorts of tricks to support ...
Neolad2020r 25.02.2003
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My Name Is Joe is a slice of life so raw that you can see the blood dripping off it and as ... more
in real life it mixes humour passion tragedy and violence in equal measure. Joe is a recovering alcoholic and has done a few things in his past which he'd rath...
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
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