| Joe | |
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| Directed by | John G. Avildsen |
| Written by | Norman Wexler |
| Produced by | David Gil |
| Starring | Peter Boyle Dennis Patrick Audrey Caire Susan Sarandon K Callan Patrick McDermott |
| Cinematography | John G. Avildsen |
| Edited by | George T. Norris |
| Music by | Bobby Scott |
| Distributed by | Cannon Group[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $106,000 |
| Box office | $19,319,254[2][3] or $9.5 million[4] |
Joe is a 1970 American drama film written by Norman Wexler and directed by John G. Avildsen. It stars Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, and Susan Sarandon in her film debut.[5][6]
The film follows New York business executive Bill Compton as his life unravels into murderous chaos after he kills his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend and enters into a peculiar partnership with factory worker Joe, a veteran with racist fantasies of vigilante violence. Their search for Compton's missing daughter leads to a raid on a hippie commune that turns into mass murder where Compton mistakenly shoots his own daughter.
The film's plot coincidentally resembled a real-life mass murder in Detroit, where the killer had killed his own daughter. The real-life killer gained publicity for his actions, and received letters of support by hundreds of parents. The film has received praise for its black comedy-style satire of social class.
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- ^ "Box Office Information for Joe". The Numbers. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Joe". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
- ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 291. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
- ^ Nystrom, Derek (2004), "Hard Hats and Movie Brats: Auteurism and the Class Politics of the New Hollywood", Cinema Journal, Vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 18–41.
- ^ Perlstein, Rick (2008). Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-4302-5.