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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 24, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick & Susan Sarandon | |
Performer: | Audrey Caire & K Callan | |
Directed by | John G. Avildsen | |
Edited by | George T. Norris | |
Screenwriting by | Norman Wexler | |
Composition by | Bobby Scott | |
Produced by | David Gil | |
Director of Photography: | John G. Avildsen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Exudes a quiet determination that American cinema could use more of.
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Little White Lies
Rating: 4/5 --
Green specialises in a soulful naturalism, and Joe contrasts moments of Malick-style lyricism with scenes of extreme brutality.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
The plot griddles its right-on themes. Deforestation; social deprivation; child abuse; alcohol abuse . . . It's a long menu and the food isn't any good.
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Financial Times
Rating: 4/5 --
With an air of an old Jim Thompson novel, Joe is a grungy thriller with a surprisingly tender heart.
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CineVue
Rating: 4/5 --
Joe is a gripping drama with a powerful moral core, that has sympathy for those trying to make their way alone through the world, but doesn't give them much of a chance.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 8/10 --
Joe is a harrowing look into the lost souls of men and brings one our most accomplished actors back to the stage he belongs in.
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The Hollywood Outsider
A story of genuine emotions.
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Times of Malta
Product Description:
Director John G. Avildsen's violent and gritty portrayal of the clash between the counterculture and establishment of 1970s New York became an instant cult classic. Dennis Patrick stars as Bill Compton, a New York advertising executive whose hippie daughter, Melissa (Susan Sarandon in her film debut), is sent to rehab after she's found overdosing in an East Village drugstore. Melissa's unrepentant junkie boyfriend, Frank (Patrick McDermott), wallows in drugs and squalor until Bill visits him and flies into a violent rage that ends in murder. This act of violence wins him the admiration of Joe (Peter Boyle), a flag-waving bigoted blue-collar worker, as the two strike up an unlikely friendship in a local bar. Joe's knowledge of Bill's heinous crime becomes a subtle form of emotional blackmail as the two men spend time together in a bizarre class struggle between their two disparate worlds. When Melissa runs away, the two friends, joined in their fear and hatred of the counterculture, begin a search for her in the bohemian haunts of New York's East Village. Their search turns into an ironic night of liberation as the two men carouse with a group of young hippies. However, as the evening comes to a close the two men are consumed by their hatred and guilt. A final conflict with the hippies ends in a deeply disturbing and violent climax. This stylized and stark view of hate crimes and the 1970s counterculture remains shocking and relevant to this day.
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