| My Name Is Joe | |
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| Directed by | Ken Loach |
| Written by | Paul Laverty |
| Produced by | Ulrich Felsberg Rebecca O'Brien |
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| Cinematography | Barry Ackroyd |
| Edited by | Jonathan Morris |
| Music by | George Fenton |
| Distributed by | Film Four |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | English, Scots |
| Box office | $0.8 million |
My Name Is Joe is a 1998 British romantic drama film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow, Scotland who meets and falls in love with a health visitor, played by Louise Goodall. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam. The film's title is a reference to the ritualised greeting performed in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, as portrayed in the film's opening scene.
The movie was mainly filmed in the council estates of Glasgow and filling small roles with local residents, many of whom had drug and criminal pasts.
The film won awards in many film festivals, including Best Actor for Mullan at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The British Film Institute ranked the film 91st in its 1999 BFI Top 100 British films list.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: My Name Is Joe". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2 October 2009.