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	My Name is Joe (1998)
		Joe is Glaswegian hard man with a quick-draw temper but a basically sweet disposition, has got sober after years of alcoholism, pulling himself back from the brink because he has realised how violent he can be when he drinks.
		Joe and Sarah's burgeoning relationship is fraught with obstacles, not least when he moves to placate the heavies rounding on Liam for unpaid debts With many scenes shot in dark, barely lit rooms, the nightmare of Joe's past seems to be ever present, lurking in the shadows.
		My Name is Joe is deeply committed to its characters; underlying humanist ideals, this is an exacting and beautifully measured look at raw, forgot areas of life in '90s Britain.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/drama/filmography/003.html (316 words)

	My Name Is Joe
		'My Name is Joe' was filmed in the heart of one of the poorest and most neglected neighbourhoods of Scotland's biggest city.
		Joe is on the wagon, but still raw after chaotic years of drinking.
		Joe and Sarah are both committed in their own ways to helping Liam and Sabine and are thrown together because of them.
	www.filmeducation.org /secondary/MyNameisJoe.html (1074 words)

	Film & TV: My Name Is Joe (Austin Chronicle . 03-08-99)
		Neither Joe nor Sarah is looking for a relationship: Joe is fearful because his last relationship ended with a bout of drunken violence and Sarah is simply content with her life as it is. Both are in their late 30s, and find themselves drawn to each other despite their original intentions.
		Yet Joe and Sarah remain very real and recognizable characters, whose adult love affair is fraught with all the hesitancies of two people who thought that emotional dependency was not in their cards.
		Another of My Name Is Joe's distinctive delights is its inclusion of English subtitles, which proves to be just the right ticket for deciphering those thick Scottish brogues.
	weeklywire.com /ww/03-08-99/austin_screens_film4.html (560 words)

	Cranky Critic® Reviews: My Name Is Joe
		My Name Is Joe, a British movie whose characters speak with such thick Scottish accents that the entire film is subtitled.
		Joe Kavanagh (Peter Mullan), ten months on the wagon, is on the dole (meaning he gets welfare), driving a bus for the Holsland community center chauffeuring and coaching the football (ie.
		Neither Joe nor Sarah are looking for a permanent lockdown, but friendship is better than being alone, and taking care of friends beats the tar out of burying yourself in a bottle.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive99/mynameisjoe.html (980 words)

	My Name is Joe - Well-deserved accolades for new Loach film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		My Name is Joe by veteran British director Ken Loach is a compassionate and finely crafted work about Joe Kavanagh, a 37-year-old recovering alcoholic, from Ruchill, a poverty-stricken suburb of Glasgow.
		Joe, who has not had a drink in almost a year, is a no-nonsense, warm-hearted but vulnerable man still wrestling with the demons produced by years of wild drinking.
		My Name is Joe is not dealing with new subject matter for Loach—the overwhelming majority of the 12 feature-length films and 22 television dramas and documentaries directed by him since 1964 involve working class life.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/jul1999/sff7-j24.shtml (913 words)

	CNN - Review: A hard-knock reality in 'My Name Is Joe' - February 3, 1999
		Mullen is the "Joe" of the title, a recovering alcoholic in his late 30s who's been struggling through sobriety for a little over a year.
		Joe is a realist, but he still has a too-trusting heart.
		You feel that Joe is proud of his desire to make things right in his life, and he wants to convey the conviction as clearly and precisely as possible.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9902/02/review.nameisjoe/index.html (862 words)

	Review: My Name Is Joe
		As the title suggests, the name of the main character is Joe - Joe Kavanagh, to be precise.
		Mullan is certainly not a household name, but he has had small parts in a few high-profile films, such as Braveheart and Trainspotting, and his exposure here will hopefully give his career a boost.
		Joe is the coach of a perennially inept soccer team, and, although he acts as a father-figure to all of the young men, he has taken a special interest in Liam (David McKay), a former drug dealer who is trying to walk the straight-and-narrow.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/m/my_name.html (932 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| My Name is Joe
		A masterpiece in a minor key, "My Name Is Joe" captures its Glasgow setting with the throbbing specificity for which the director is known; you can virtually smell the damp in the walls, the old cigarette smoke, the indoor funk of babies, boiled cabbage and unlaundered clothing.
		Even more fundamentally, "My Name Is Joe" is a stirringly acted, deeply compassionate love story about two battered people who believe they've already blown their chance at happiness in life.
		When Joe's efforts to rescue the most pathetic member on his soccer team from an evil fate lead to his own criminal involvement and threaten to pull him and Sarah apart, what's at stake isn't some political abstraction, but the death of the precious and improbable hope growing at this movie's center.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/reviews/1999/01/22reviewb.html (1206 words)

	My Name is Joe
		Sadly, if the experience in San Francisco is typical, the same thing is happening to My Name is Joe, which opened in dreary Opera Plaza (tiny screens, tiny auditoria), lasted just a few weeks, and would have completely disappeared were it not for the Four Star, arguably the most courageous exhibitor in San Francisco.
		Now they are showing My Name is Joe and perhaps will be patient enough for word of mouth to spread so that the serious Bay area movie audience gets a chance to see a brilliant, moving film that is a new pinnacle of achievement for its director.
		Joe is a recovering alcoholic in Glasgow, a city whose high levels of unemployment, poverty, and drug addiction are becoming movie legend.
	www.culturevulture.net /movies/MyNameisJoe.htm (635 words)

	MY NAME IS JOE
		As such, I'm pleased to report that "My Name is Joe" -- a film filled with Scottish accents that are so thick you'd think the dialogue was being spoken in another language far removed from English -- is accompanied by English subtitles.
		We learn that Joe is a recovering alcoholic (who's been sober for quite a while) and that he beat a former girlfriend while drunk (seen in a flashback).
		Joe smokes quite often during the film, while Sabine smokes a few times, Liam smokes once, and several team players, some people at an AA meeting, and other miscellaneous characters also smoke.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1998/my_name_is_joe.html (2350 words)

	EUFS: My Name Is Joe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		My Name is Joe is unlikely to change anyone's opinion.
		Joe's a recovering alcoholic - the film takes its title from the first part of his Alcoholics Anonymous mantra "My name is Joe and I'm an alcoholic" - who ekes out a living as an odd-job man and manages "the worst football team in Glasgow".
		Initially Joe regards Sarah with contempt,as just another middle class authority figure, but a tentative romance starts to develop when both find some common interest in helping Liam, who is in trouble with loan shark and drug dealer McGowan.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/my_name_is_joe.html (304 words)

	MY NAME IS JOE movie review (with photos and clips where possible)
		Joe Kavanagh (Peter Mullan, who won the best-actor prize for this role at last year's Cannes Film Festival) is first seen at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, talking about how much his sobriety means to him.
		Joe is a guy who is just learning to deal with the stresses of life, something to which alcohol had inured him.
		Although filmed in English, "My Name is Joe" comes with subtitles, for those who find the Scottish burr too thick to be comprehensible.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/m/myname.html (547 words)

	'My Name is Joe' (R)
		"My Name Is Joe," filmed in one of Glasgow's poorest neighborhoods, bears all the hallmarks of the independent director's work ("Riff-Raff," "Hidden Agenda"), yet it also has the breezy air of a romantic comedy.
		Joe Kavanagh (Peter Mullan) has been on the wagon for 10 months and is still feeling fragile when he befriends and then falls in love with Sarah Downey (Louise Goodall), a Scottish health care worker.
		Joe realizes too late that he's still too fragile to cope with both a difficult love affair and his young friend's increasingly deadly and most certainly insoluble situation.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/movies/reviews/mynameisjoekempley.htm (411 words)

	My Name is Joe (by L. Proyect)
		Joe Kavanagh (Peter Mullan) is a recovering alcoholic on the dole.
		While Joe is ruggedly handsome, his hair is thinning and there is a suggestion of the need for some dental work.
		Joe used to be in MacGowan's gang when he was on the booze, but has nothing to do with him nowadays.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/joe.htm (1278 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| My Name Is Joe
		My Name Is Joe is set in the part of Europe that doesn't go on postcards.
		Among the numberless unemployed is Joe (Peter Mullan), a recovering alcoholic.
		My Name Is Joe (R; 105 min., directed by Ken Loach, written by Paul Laverty, photographed by Batrry Ackroyd and starring Peter Mullan and Louise Goodall.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.25.99/mynameisjoe-9908.html (531 words)

	Movie Review: My name is Joe
		Liam is Joe's nephew and is struggling with a heroin problem - Sarah is the social worker dealing with Liam's family.
		However, My name is Joe, while effectively evoking the environment of poverty, really doesn't have anything new or original to say, and resorts to rather cliched Hollywood devices in an attempt to inject some drama into the story.
		Joe's attempt to create a new, decent life with Sarah is compromised when he is forced to deal with a local drug-baron, McGowan (David Hayman).
	www.fortunecity.com /lavendar/heat/435/myname.htm (430 words)

	Ken Loach (My Name Is Joe)
		I mean, it's pessimistic in that it has to be pessimistic in the short term because the world of Joe and Sarah and the football team is there for the foreseeable future because we've got a political system and leadership that takes decisions that insures that that level of suffering will continue.
		My hunch is that there probably is, but I don't see enough to be able to pontificate on that.
		The important thing from my point of view is to keep the performer in touch with his or her instinct because that's really precious because you live off that for the two or three hours that it takes to do a scene.
	www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/KL01.HTM (6307 words)

	Political Film Society - My Name is Joe
		In My Name is Joe, the problems of working-class Glasgow, Scotland, during the period of high unemployment under Margaret Thatcher’s era are highlighted.
		Directed by Kenneth Loach, My Name Is Joe is on a par with Boyz ‘n the Hood, since it shows the consequences of insecure employment in a capitalist economy where the welfare of workers is subordinated to profits for management.
		Clearly, alcoholism, an inability to pay the rent and buy the food to sustain families, which in turn are a seedbed for organized crime, especially the distribution and use of drugs and even the temptation of women to become prostitutes.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/mynameisjoe.html (296 words)

	My Name Is Joe - Movie Review
		"My Name Is Joe" certainly has plenty of admirers, but I'm guessing the Glasgow Tourist Board isn't one of them.
		Joe's life finally seems to be heading along the right lines when he falls for nicey-nicey social worker Sarah (Louise Goodall).
		The romance that develops between Joe and Sarah is entirely believable, and Loach throws in just enough occasional humour to stop you from throwing yourself through a nearby window and subsequently missing the predictably bleak climax.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/272 (474 words)

	My Name is Joe — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		MY NAME IS JOE is the heartfelt story of an unlikely romance between two very different people.
		As Joe attempts to manage his new life and budding romance, he contemplates his torrid past, his complex present, and the changes that he needs to make in order to secure a bright future.
		My Name is Joe [Import] (Peter Mullan and Rebecca O'Brien)
	www.infoplease.com /movies/17139 (179 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		My Name Is Joe tells us a little about a 37 year old reformed alcoholic called Joe.
		The first half of My Name Is Joe is mostly a tender love story.
		In My Name Is Joe, Joe's speech about the lack of choices available to the unemployed and unlucky is salient, even if later on we find that Joe has taken liberties that are probably unforgivable.
	www.iig.com.au /film/mynamejoe.html (354 words)

	JOE
		Aside from a collaboration with 'NSYNC (the only act to keep Joe's album from debuting at number one), "My Name Is Joe" also includes the remix of Mariah Carey's hit "Thank God I Found You" featuring himself and Nas, a song that got the Joe buzz going well in advance of his release date.
		Joe isn't one to depend on other people's talent, however, as he produced the majority of the songs and also played guitar on the album.
		Joe can also count the Backstreet Boys among his fans; the group covered "No One Else Comes Close," a song that originally appeared on "All That I Am" and is included on the Boys' current "Millennium" album.
	www.mtv.com /bands/archive/j/joe00 (491 words)

	Film Review: My Name is Joe (15)
		Joe's only love is coaching probably the worst football team in all of Glasgow, until he meets Sarah (Louise Goodall).
		The blossoming love between Joe and Sarah is threatened by the intricacies of life.
		"My Name is Joe" is about real lives, difficult choices and the triumph of the human spirit.
	www.dailyinfo.co.uk /reviews/film/joe.html (421 words)

	Crescent Blues Movie Views \| My Name Is Joe: Scottish Gem
		My Name Is Joe is one of the year's small gems.
		Peter Mullan (named best actor at Cannes for this role) portrays Joe as a tough guy with a heart of gold and energy to spare.
		My Name Is Joe comes with subtitles, not in the least distracting and ever so helpful.
	www.crescentblues.com /2_1issue/joe.shtml (263 words)

	The Space Review: My Name is Joe
		Peter Mullan puts in a powerhouse performance as Joe Kavanagh, a classic battler and recently-recovered alcoholic, anxious to leave the chaos of his former life behind.
		When he meets and falls for health-care worker Louise - played brilliantly by Louise Goodall - Joe's life takes on a new optimism, only to be complicated by outside domestic turmoil.
		My Name Is Joe well deserves 4 stars.
	www.abc.net.au /arts/review/film/s432051.htm (203 words)

	My Name Is Joe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		With the release of 'My Name Is Joe' one can easily conclude that although it is undoubtedly a moving and powerful motion picture, it certainly has a lot of themes and situations very similar to ones which appeared in previous Ken Loach movies.
		In typical Loach fashion, My Name Is Joe tells a tragic story of a well intentioned man driven to disaster by: a soft heart, alcohol and the social conditions around him.
		Joe’s biggest passion is his hapless soccer team which he coaches.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~Sbasket/mejoe.htm (636 words)

	My Name Is Joe TV Show - AOL Television
		My Name is Joe, his third album, is his bid to change that.
		"My Name is Joe" is full of these tracks, none which won't sound out of place in modern...
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	tvshows.aol.com /show/my-name-is-joe/MV0586450000/main (226 words)

	Press: My Name is Joe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		“My Name is Joe” combines stark social commentary with believable characters.
		Living on the dole, Joe’s favorite pastime is coaching a bunch of loser kids in soccer.
		Because Joe was helped out of his own helpless situation in the past, he believes he can do the same for young Liam.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/documentd3fb.html (341 words)

	Amazon.com: My Name Is Joe / Movie: Video: Peter Mullan,Louise Goodall,David McKay (II),Anne-Marie Kennedy,David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Joe Kavanagh (Peter Mullan), out-of-work Glasgow housepainter, is a terrifically attractive fellow, and though he's also a recovering alcoholic, he seems eminently pulled-together and ready for yeoman service as a movie leading man. The main story line concerns his encounter with and growing attraction to a smart social worker (Louise Goodall).
		Joe is supposedly a sign painter who has plenty of time to coach a soccer team, but rarely does anything to earn a living.
		Joe is not in the least bit apologetic for violating the rules, but instead argues that he is still entitled to his parasitical allowance!
	www.amazon.com /Name-Joe-Movie-Peter-Mullan/dp/6305412820 (2043 words)

	Amazon.fr : My Name Is Joe: Vidéo: Peter Mullan,Louise Goodall,David McKay,Annemarie Kennedy,David Hayman,Ken ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Amazon.fr : My Name Is Joe: Vidéo: Peter Mullan,Louise Goodall,David McKay,Annemarie Kennedy,David Hayman,Ken Loach
		Chômeur, alcoolique repenti, Joe retrouve son salut en entraînant une équipe de foot calamiteuse et en enchaînant les petits boulots.
		Joe, magnifiquement incarné par Peter Mullan (Prix d'interprétation à Cannes en 1998), est un "héros positif" : il a abandonné l'alcool, souhaite former un couple, est plein d'énergie mais ne peut rien sortir.
	www.amazon.fr /My-Name-Joe-Peter-Mullan/dp/B00004VZKV (419 words)

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