My Name Is Joe (1998)
Country: GB/GER/FR/IT/SP
Technical: col 105m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, David Hayman
Synopsis:
A Glasgow unemployed alcoholic, on the wagon and running a local football team, is undone by loyalty to a close friend and his family and to his relationship with their NHS health visitor.
Review:
Classic Loach situations abound in what at first seems to be a lighter-hearted examination of social problems than Raining Stones proved to be, but there are rightly no easy escapes to happiness for a political director. Sarah, for all her good intentions, cannot put aside her comfortable middle-class certitudes about right and wrong. Nevertheless, the ending allows for a relatively optimistic interpretation.
Country: GB/GER/FR/IT/SP
Technical: col 105m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, David Hayman
Synopsis:
A Glasgow unemployed alcoholic, on the wagon and running a local football team, is undone by loyalty to a close friend and his family and to his relationship with their NHS health visitor.
Review:
Classic Loach situations abound in what at first seems to be a lighter-hearted examination of social problems than Raining Stones proved to be, but there are rightly no easy escapes to happiness for a political director. Sarah, for all her good intentions, cannot put aside her comfortable middle-class certitudes about right and wrong. Nevertheless, the ending allows for a relatively optimistic interpretation.
Country: GB/GER/FR/IT/SP
Technical: col 105m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, David Hayman
Synopsis:
A Glasgow unemployed alcoholic, on the wagon and running a local football team, is undone by loyalty to a close friend and his family and to his relationship with their NHS health visitor.
Review:
Classic Loach situations abound in what at first seems to be a lighter-hearted examination of social problems than Raining Stones proved to be, but there are rightly no easy escapes to happiness for a political director. Sarah, for all her good intentions, cannot put aside her comfortable middle-class certitudes about right and wrong. Nevertheless, the ending allows for a relatively optimistic interpretation.