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My Name is Joe, 1998

Starring: Peter Mullan, David McKay, Louise Goodall, Gary Lewis

Directed by: Ken Loach

Written by: Paul Laverty

Language: English

Country: Spain, Italy, France, UK, Germany

Runtime: 105 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.4

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My Name is Joe can be described as gloomy, touching, and thought provoking. The plot revolves around unemployment, alcohol abuse, and the working class. The main genres are drama, independent, and romance. In terms of style, My Name is Joe features realism and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. My Name is Joe is located in Scotland. It takes place in the 1980s. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that My Name is Joe involves profanity and violent content.

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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.