My Name Is Joe Movie Review

Cast & Crew

Director : Ken Loach

Producer : Rebecca O'Brien

Screenwriter : Paul Laverty

Starring : Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, Anne-Marie Kennedy, David Hayman, Gary Lewis, Lorraine McIntosh

Okay, so your name is Joe. So what?

Joe turns out to be a recovering alcoholic, and in 28 Days fashion, winds his way to recovery, stopping only for a tepid romance with a lady friend. Then My Name is Joe turns gangsterish, before an abrupt and uninteresting ending -- which might have been redeemed if the film was remotely interesting anywhere along the way.

In Glasgow-English so thick it has to be subtitled, Joe is so self-indulgent and smug that you can't help but hate it.

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My Name Is Joe Rating

" Terrible "

Rating: R, 1998

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