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Joe
Overview
David Gordon Green's JOE stars Nicolas Cage as the title character, the foreman of a work crew hired to poison trees before they are cleared from land owned by people who plan to develop it. One day, 15-year-old Gary (Tye Sheridan) arrives at the worksite looking for a job for both himself and his alcoholic, shiftless father. Joe hires them both, but the self-destructive dad is quickly told never to return. Gary, however, earns his keep, and soon he begins to think of Joe as a father figure. However, Joe has a prison record, and a problem keeping his explosive anger in check, and when a local man develops a grudge against him, both Gary and Joe must take a stand. JOE screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Main Cast & Crew:
David Gordon Green - Director
Nicolas Cage
Tye Sheridan
Gary Poulter
Ronnie Gene Blevins
Adriene Mishler
Brian D. Mays
A.J. Wilson McPhaul
Sue Rock
Heather Kafka
Brenda Isaacs-Booth
Details
- Format: Blu-ray (Ultraviolet Digital Copy, AC-3, Digital Theater System, Widescreen)
- Run Time: 117
- UPC: 031398196778
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: R (MPAA)
- Release Date: June 2014
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"Mr. Cage has stripped his performance bare of anything that might smack of a familiar star presence; what's left feels freshly discovered, for him and for us." - 04/10/2014 Wall Street Journal
"While still small scale, JOE is a muscular film, its storytelling deeper, its setting striking, its acting resonant." - 04/10/2014 Los Angeles Times
"This is a movie about restraint, which is exactly what its star demonstrates throughout." -- Grade: B - 04/10/2014 A.V. Club
3 stars out of 4 -- "David Gordon Green directs a gritty script that Gary Hawkins adapts from a 1991 novel by Larry Brown. Gripping..." - 04/10/2014 Chicago Sun-Times
4 stars out of 4 -- "One of Green's great gifts as a filmmaker is his ability to create a real sense of mood and place throughout....JOE presents a world that will ring true to audiences at all points of the socio-economic spectrum..." - 04/11/2014 RogerEbert.com
3 stars out of 4 -- "If you need a reminder of what a fine, nuanced actor Nicolas Cage can be, take a look at JOE. This is the kind of artful character study that marked Cage's work in LEAVING LAS VEGAS, RAISING ARIZONA and ADAPTATION." - 04/11/2014 Rolling Stone
"The most indelible scenes in David Gordon Green’s JOE, filmed in the backwoods of Texas, have the fierce clarity of illuminations glimpsed in a lightning flash." - 04/11/2014 New York Times
"Green's regular cinematographer, Tim Orr, brings to the exteriors his characteristically ripe, rich palette." - 08/01/2015 Sight and Sound
4 stars out of 5 -- "An understated Nicolas Cage...anchors a superbly realised film" - 07/25/2015 Empire
4 stars out of 5 -- "As this chain-smoking, binge-drinking, bruiser-with-a-heart, Cage is better -- realer -- than he’s been for years…..Sheridan is a natural…" - 07/21/2015 Total Film
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