My Name Is Joe (Mein Name ist Joe) (1998)
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88% of critics liked it
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Actor Peter Mullan won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival "Best Actor" award with this film, directed by Ken Loach (Carla's Song, Ladybird, Ladybird). The drama is set in Possilpark, one of Glasgow's poorest neighborhoods, a rough section where half the population is out of work.… More Actor Peter Mullan won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival "Best Actor" award with this film, directed by Ken Loach (Carla's Song, Ladybird, Ladybird). The drama is set in Possilpark, one of Glasgow's poorest neighborhoods, a rough section where half the population is out of work. Unemployed reformed alcoholic Joe Kavanagh (Mullan) does odd jobs and manages a stumbling soccer team. One of the players is Liam (David McKay), in debt to hood McGowan (David Hayman). Liam and junkie Sabine (Annemarie Kennedy) are raising a small son. After Joe meets social worker Sarah (Louise Goodall), he and his pal Shanks show up to help in the wallpapering of Sarah's apartment. This job creates a problem for Joe with the local unemployment office, until Sarah steps in to cover. It's the beginning of a romance, and Joe and Sarah make an effort to help Liam and Sarah when they are threatened by the loan sharks. Mullan commented, "The drug problem in that place is so serious that people are passive. They are corralled in a sort of dog-eat-dog environment where humans meet to laugh and thrive but have no hope of getting out." Scripted by former lawyer Paul Laverty, the film is inspired by the first half of Loach's Carla's Song. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ken Loach
- Written By
- Paul Laverty
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- In Theaters
- Feb 5, 1999 Wide
- Studio
- Artisan Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Another great achievement from England's Ken Loach.
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Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
Ken Loach at his best.
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Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
powerful and intensely moving
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Cast
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Peter Mullan
as Joe Kavanagh
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Louise Goodall
as Sarah Downie
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David McKay
as Liam
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Anne-Marie Kennedy
as Sabine
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David Hayman
as McGowan
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Gary Lewis
as Shanks
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Lorraine McIntosh
as Maggie