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My Name Is Joe

  • 19981998
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  • 1h 45m
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7.5/10
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Louise Goodall and Peter Mullan in My Name Is Joe (1998)
DramaRomance
Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
8.4K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
28,029
3,615
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    • Director
      • Ken Loach
    • Writer
      • Paul Laverty(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Peter Mullan
      • Louise Goodall
      • Gary Lewis
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Ken Loach
    • Writer
      • Paul Laverty(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Peter Mullan
      • Louise Goodall
      • Gary Lewis
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 49User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 13 wins & 11 nominations total

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    Peter Mullan in My Name Is Joe (1998)
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    Peter Mullan
    Peter Mullan
    • Joe Kavanagh
    Louise Goodall
    • Sarah Downie
    Gary Lewis
    Gary Lewis
    • Shanks
    Lorraine McIntosh
    • Maggie
    David McKay
    • Liam
    Anne-Marie Kennedy
    • Sabine
    • (as Annemarie Kennedy)
    Scott Hannah
    • Scott
    David Peacock
    • Hooligan
    Gordon McMurray
    • Scrag
    James McHendry
    • Perfume
    Paul Clark
    • Zulu
    Stephen McCole
    Stephen McCole
    • Mojo
    Simon Macallum
    • Robbo
    Paul Gillan
    • Davy
    Stephen Docherty
    • Doc
    Paul Doonan
    • Tattie
    Cary Carbin
    • Sepp Maier
    David Hayman
    David Hayman
    • McGowan
    • Director
      • Ken Loach
    • Writer
      • Paul Laverty(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      With the exception of David McKay (Liam), all the members of Joe's football team had no previous acting experience and were local residents, some with previous drug problems.
    • Goofs
      The reflection of the boom microphone is visible in the television set when Sarah is talking with Sabine at the school.
    • Quotes

      Sarah Downie: Get out of my way! Leave me!

      Joe Kavanagh: No. No. No, calm down. Just calm down.

      Sarah Downie: Are you gonna hit me too, Joe?

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Payback/She's All That/Rushmore/Simply Irresistible/My Name Is Joe (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Down the Dustpipe
      Written by Groszmann

      Performed by Status Quo

      Published by Valley Music Ltd

      Courtesy of Castle Copyrights Ltd

    User reviews49

    Review
    Top review
    Entertaining film about "social issues"
    Ken Loach is a truly exceptional film-maker. Like Bunuel, he has seemingly risen from the dead (during Thatcher's reign) and re-emerged as an international force. I found his latest film "My name is Joe" to be a hugely enjoyable affair, perhaps a little less abrasive and direct than his earlier efforts, like "Poor cow" and "Family life". Even so, he depicts "working class"- people with the same warmth and insight as before.

    The main character is Joe, a jobless reformed alcoholic in Glasgow with a heart of gold. In the attempt to better the lot of those around him, (and forget his self-loathing) Joe organizes a football team and makes house-calls on those in need of support, especially Liam and Sabine, a young couple in dire straits. Liam owes 500 pounds to the local drug-dealer, and Sabine has likewise racked up a debt. Joe tries his best to offer help, but when he is forced to perform a criminal act, he runs the risk of losing his law-abiding girl-friend into the bargain.

    Joe is a character whom you instantly like. Even his transgressions won't make you think the worse of him, as he quite obviously suffers from what he's done. Joe wants to lead a "normal" life, stay on the right side of the law, get a girlfriend and what have you. But he just can't juggle off his past as a drunkard, he can't get off the dole and so hasn't the means to move away from his run-down apartment, his rotten little suburb. His only hope is to get someone to love him, someone to lift him out of the rut, to boost his self-esteem.

    It is, for sure, a touching, humane story, beautifully scripted, shot in a simple style, and with a wonderful central performance by Peter Mullan. My question is, is it more? Is MNIJ a valid comment on deprived communities in Britain today? Do there still exist working class ethics like the ones Loach depicts in this movie? And are they still as relevant as when Britain was poor back in the 60' ies, the decade of Loach's first movies?

    Granted, there are still poor, neglected people aplenty, but do they behave like this? This movie seems a little on the soft side compared to say Gillian MacKinnon's "Small faces", and even "Trainspotting". "MNIJ, I feel, is more of a self-contained Chekhovian drama than an attack on our bourgeois sensibilities.

    (The soundtrack, by the way, consists mostly of dangerously out-dated glam-rock material from the 70' ies. Painful stuff!) Call me flippant, but I didn't feel like hitting a drug dealer, or tearing the social fabric after watching this movie. Perhaps it should have hurt more. Even so, it's a fabulous film by a unique director.
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    • Release date
      • January 22, 1999 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Germany
      • France
      • Spain
    • Languages
      • Scots
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Mi nombre es todo lo que tengo
    • Filming locations
      • Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Argyll and Bute, UK
    • Production companies
      • ARD Degeto Film
      • ARTE
      • Alta Films
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $354,952
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $16,017
      • Jan 24, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $354,952
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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