“Joe” is a 2014 film adaptation of Larry Brown’s 1991 novel of the same name directed by David Gordon Green and starring Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan and Ronnie Gene Blevins. Joe Ransom, drinks heavily, outruns police and gambles away his money. He is the unlikeliest of role models to everyone except 15 year old Gary Jones, the oldest child of a homeless family run by a worthless father. Joe takes Gary under his wing seeing much of himself in the kid. Together they try to find a path to redemption and the hope for a better life in the rugged, gritty world of small town Mississippi. It premiered at the 2013 Venice Film Festival and it will be released in theaters on 11th of next month.
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