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Joe
Product Type: DVD
Product Price: $14.98
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Description
Hardhats and hippies clash in 1960s New York City in this gritty drama exploring the rocky edge of that era's generation gap. With Academy AwardÂ(r) winner* Susan Sarandon in her screen debutand starring Peter Boyle in a "stunningly effective" (Variety) performance, Joe is a "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal), "immensely sophisticated piece of film-making" (Los AngelesTimes) about an era in turmoil. Joe Curran (Boyle) is a loudmouthed factory worker with a bigot's mean streak. Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick) is a wealthy executive who, in an uncharacteristic fit of rage, has just murdered the drug-addicted boyfriend of his daughter (Sarandon). When the two men meet in a bar, an unholy alliance is formed. And after Bill's daughter runs away, they search for her in the psychedelic underworld they despise'setting in motion a shocking and humiliating string of events that leads to a brutal and chilling final scene. *1995: Actress, Dead Man Walking
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-10
Summary: "JOE, is still relevan,"
The messages in JOE are still relevant and a must watch for parents and young adults. It covers many issues, but primarily speaks to the disconnect between children and parents and the tragedies that can ensue when drugs are introduced. Peter Boyle spews out vile prejudices, but unfortunately represents many Americans. Susan Sarandon does a splendid job as the drug addict of an upper-middle class family that can't relate to her parents.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-04-08
Summary: "A very satisfying film"
I watched this film in a theater in 1970 and again recently on DVD. Both time I found it very satisfying. Joe was a man of conviction; I liked that.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-01
Summary: ""There oughta be a law: you don't work, you don't drink!""
Haven't seen JOE since 1970 but I remember it well and also once had the MERCURY Records soundtrack LP, JOE SPEAKS. This review's title is from an infamous barroom soliloquy heard on that album.
Peter Boyle as Joe is decidely not the jolly monster of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, and he's far more acidic than Ray Romano's dad on TV's EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND.
Joe Curran is a blue collared New Yorker who's angry over the state of the world. When he gets a few beers under his belt Joe spouts hatred of blacks, hippies, social workers and even his own progeny ("I got a kid... ahhh, screw 'im!"). As Joe blows off steam in his favorite neighbohood tavern, Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick), a man who is his opposite in every possible way, wanders in.
Compton, a well-to-do businessman, has just done the unthinkable: he's murdered his daughter's junkie boyfriend after the guy caused Melissa (Susan Sarandon, in her first movie) to O.D.
Bill throws down a few stiff drinks and listens to Joe's ranting diatribe. When Joe says that he'd like to kill a hippie Bill slurs out, "I just did." Thus, an unlikely friendship is forged, based on Joe's desire to "off" a creep and Bill's having done so.
This strange duo explore the counter-culture while searching for Melissa, who disappeared after learning what her father did. They visit a macrobiotic restaurant, party with some kids and participate in an orgy. Ultimately, the story ends in an unforeseen tragedy for one of them.
John Avildsen's movie illustrates the dark, violent side of the Generation Gap. With an ongoing war in Southeast Asia and student protests that just a month before "Joe" was released culminated in the Kent State massacre, this film's shocking conclusion seems almost predestined.
Highest recommendation!
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-03-29
Summary: "Thought-Provoking But Riddled With Stereotypes"
How did I miss this when it first appeared? I was in high school in Southern California when Joe was first released but despite a storyline which would have appealed to hipper elements at school, I don't recall Joe ever being mentioned by anyone who fit that description nor do I recall ever reading about it in the burgeoning and ubiquitous underground press. Anyhow, to this day I have never met anyone who mentioned anything to me about this movie and indeed, I found out about it only through an amazon recommendation that appeared because of something else I bought. Anyhow, that recommendation sounded interesting so I ordered it, watched it, and overall I enjoyed it.
Joe is a thought-provoking film, but it is riddled with stereotypes. Ad exec Bill Compton's world is one of money, success, and a sort of metrosexual social milieu. Joe Curran's world is combatively blue-collar, where any man with any pretense to sophistication is seen as a "fag", a pinko, or a n*#*#*-lover. He may have been the inspiration for Archie Bunker, the ignorant TV bigot who came to epitomize the typical conservative to a generation of sneering liberals. Curran bowled (how gauche!), he ate junk food, drank cheap beer and liquor, loved to fondle and clean his guns, and constantly railed against hippies, contemporary music and culture, and welfare parasites. He is a time-bomb just waiting to explode. The film's hippies, too, are stereotypes with their cocktail of constant drug use, communal living, libertine attitudes, and even their eating habits.
So how did two such unlikely friends hook up? Unlike many others, I don't see this as a weird kind of male bonding film. I see it as the story of a guy who got sucked into a world he didn't know, like, or understand by a careless comment he made to a raving drunk in a bar. Dennis Patrick, as ad exec Bill Compton has a lot to lose. After accidentally killing his daughter's degenerate boyfriend in a fit of rage, he stops into a bar for a drink. Peter Boyle, as Joe Curran, was already in the bar loudly pontificating on welfare bums and other human effluvium. He commented to Compton that he'd like to kill a hippie. Compton, still in shock from his struggle with his daughter's boyfriend, commented that he just did. Curran introduced himself and offered to buy him a drink, but Compton left. When the story of the dead drug addict hit the news, Curran put two and two together, sought Compton out and asked to meet him. Compton, fearing blackmail, went along to meet the cunning Curran and that meeting started the spiral of events which eventually led to a tragic ending.
Though Joe is somewhat dated, it is still a story that speaks to legions of parents who have suffered the heartache of seriously wayward offspring as well as being a cautionary reminder of how easily events can spiral out of control with tragic consequences. If you grew up in the late sixties or early seventies and haven't seen Joe, do so now, its like riding a time machine.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2008-09-16
Summary: "A Weird, Grim Classic From 1970"
First off, I would not suggest 'Joe' (1970) as an ideal date movie. This 70's contemporary urban drama from director John G. Avildsen is pervasively raw, gritty and unflinching in its storytelling. However, this is in no way meant against the film in a negative way. On the contrary, its hard, grim style and mood serve the movie well by giving it an honest quality about it. Commendably, it attempts to accurately depict the harsh realities of urban and suburban life as well as society as a whole during the early 70's. The movie has a cool, weird vibe about it and one can tell right away that they are in for a unique moviegoing experience just from the opening credits, which are creatively displayed entirely within the main title image of the word 'Joe'.
The story of 'Joe' begins with the runaway daughter of a wealthy business executive, Melissa Compton (played by a very young Susan Sarandon), who has recently been shacking up with her sleazy, dope-pusher, hippie boyfriend, Frank (Patrick McDermott), in a decaying tenement within New York City. They argue, take lots of drugs and have languid, stoned-out sex. One afternoon after Melissa follows Frank on one of his street-pharmacist sale meetings, he gives her some speedball and sends her on her way home. She instead ends up in a bargain store where she experiences a bad trip-out and breakdown and subsequently ends up in the hospital. After being located by her parents, her father, Bill (Dennis Patrick) ventures to the tenement where Frank and his daughter have been staying to recover some of her clothes and belongings. While inside the apartment, Bill encounters Frank returning home from his latest sale to two teenage girls within the building. After a brief exchange between the two, Frank provokes Bill by taunting him about Melissa. Bill briefly loses his temper and inadvertently kills him in a momentary fit of anger. Afterward he flees the scene and takes with the stash of drugs Frank has brought with him.
The situation progresses from bad to worse when Bill attempts to relieve the stress and anxiety of what he's just done with a drink at a nearby bar, The American Bar & Grill. It's here that he encounters notorious regular customer and titular charcater, Joe Curran (Peter Boyle in a top-notch performance), a dangerously conservative, racist and overly-opinionated working-class factory worker. Joe passionately despises hippies, liberals, blacks, jews, homosexuals, anti-war activists and anyone else he perceives to be a threat to his values and way of life. (Joe is actually not much different from the average denizen of Fox News, or Faux News as I like to call it.) After Bill impulsively admits to Joe that he just killed the hippie, drug dealer boyfriend of his daughter to Joe, Joe is instantly intrigued. Joe's intrigue and wonder are later confirmed when he reads the story of Frank's murder in the newspaper three days later. After this, Bill becomes a personal hero to Joe and the two and the two meet up outside of work and strike up an unholy partnership and odd friendship that glaringly contrasts the socio-economic differences between Bill's life of affluence and prosperity with Joe's blue-collar schlub existence. At first, Bill doesn't share Joe's prejudices and views, but after listening to Joe's rantings and speeches, he gradually begins to believe that he may have done a noble thing by killing Frank.
After Melissa learns of Frank's death and escapes from the hospital, Joe and Bill decide to find her themselves by infiltrating the local underground hippie subculture they both so hate to learn of her whereabouts. It's at this point the film takes a turn for the rather amusing and comical when the two manage to win over the trust of a young group of hippies with the tantalizing promises of the drugs Bill still has in his possession. They're invited back to a party where the two oddly start to momentarily get into the scene by taking drugs themselves and even both getting laid! After they're robbed by the group, though, they quickly snap back into focus, tracking the group down to upstate, country retreat where the film changes gears totally and races to violent, tragic and shocking ending.
As you can probably guess, 'Joe' is not politically correct nor is it pretty. In many ways it's quite an ugly film but is honorable in the fact that it makes no attempt to sugar-coat its subject matter. There are several uncomfortable scenes, most notably those of drug abuse. If you're an ultra right-wing nutball, you'll probably love this movie. If you consider yourself to be liberal, this movie may not be for your taste. I can understand why some critics don't like this movie and can understand why most liberal individuals wouldn't like this movie, but as a viewer who isn't concerned with politics and simply likes a good story for its own sake, I was fairly entertained, so I'm not going to act like 'Joe' is the most horrible, hateful movie ever made.
Peter Boyle's bold and outstanding performance is definitely what makes this movie. His potrayal of Joe is all at once impassioned, powerful, hypnotic, darkly humorous and definitely stays with the viewer. Watching him in this movie is like watching a train-wreck ; you just can't take your eyes off of him. Watch for the tense but darkly comical dinner scene where Joe and his wife Mary Lou (K. Callan) have Bill and his wife, Joan (Audrey Caire), over for dinner at their place where Joe proceeds to proudly show off his gun collection to Joan. Let's just say he's a long, LONG way from his beloved role of Frank the ornery grandad on the hit TV sitcom, 'Everybody Loves Raymond', a character that he makes look tame and innocent by comparison. Fans of Peter Boyle from that show may want to avert their eyes (and ears) from him here.
Despite its controversy, 'Joe' deserves to be seen and is commendable for its unflinching realism and honesty, which puts it in the same category as other social commentary-themed flicks of the late 60's and early 70's such as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Dirty Harry and Death Wish. While it's decidely not pretty, it remains an important film for what is: a cultural slice of early '70's, Vietnam-era Americana and its potent reminder of the consequences that result when we take our hatred and prejudices too far.
(Be sure to listen to the lyrics of the titular theme song for this movie, as they are morbidly hilarious.) Macabre humor throughout.