My Name is Joe |
Ken Loach / UK / 1998
/ Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall |
This raw slice of life from screenwriter Paul Laverty features brillant Scottish actor Peter Mullan as Joe the reformed alcoholic in charge of a terrible Glasgow football team, whose attempt to sort out the drug debts of one of his players leads to a tentative romance with a social worker and to his well-protected world being plunged into disaster and violence. Mullan is outstanding (he won Best Actor at Cannes) as the charismatic, self-destructive Joe. A dark, funny and moving drama from Britain's most celebrated film director.
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