My Name Is Joe

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My Name Is Joe (1998) is a British film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alchoholic in Glasgow who who meets and falls in love with a health visitor. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam. The film's title is a reference to the ritualized greeting performed in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, as portrayed in the film's opening scene.

The movie was mainly filmed in the actual slums of Glasgow and filling small roles with local residents, many of whom had drug and criminal pasts. The Scottish accents of some of the actors are so thick that the film is shown subtitled on American television.

The film won awards in many film festivals, including Best Actor for Mullan at the Cannes Film Festival.

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My Name Is Joe at the Internet Movie Database

Ken Loach
1960s	Poor Cow \| Kes
1970s	The Save the Children Fund Film \| Family Life \| Black Jack
1980s	The Gamekeeper \| Looks and Smiles \| Which Side Are You On?
1990s	Fatherland \| Hidden Agenda \| Riff-Raff \| Raining Stones \| Ladybird Ladybird \| Land and Freedom \| A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership \| Carla's Song \| The Flickening Flame \| My Name Is Joe
2000s	Bread and Roses \| The Navigators \| Sweet Sixteen \| Ae Fond Kiss... \| Tickets \| The Wind That Shakes the Barley