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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 15, 2000
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Noah Fleiss, Karen Young & Val Kilmer | |
Performer: | John Leguizamo & Ethan Hawke | |
Directed by | Frank Whaley | |
Edited by | Melody London | |
Screenwriting by | Frank Whaley | |
Produced by | Scott Macaulay | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Mayers |
Entertainment Reviews:
a deeply sad picture of mistreated youth, told with considerable skill, and blessedly shorn of sentimentality
culturevulture.net
Even with warts and all, "Joe the King" is a very worthwhile drama.
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Cinema Crazed
...An impressive writing and directing debut....Punctuated by a strong cast and affecting performances... -- 4 out of 5 stars
Box Office
Unfortunately, Whaley opts to take the sentimental route, providing easy, crowd-pleasing answers to the serious questions he raises.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 3/4 --
A very tough, very real film, anchored by the memorable work of the two leads.
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TheMovieReport.com
Rating: 2/4 --
The film is so steeped in resentment that it's not able to pull back and let us see the boy behind the shield of his misery.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Coming-of-age movie with mature themes, lots of profanity.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
A sensitive, uncompromising portrait of a resilient young boy trying to navigate the loneliness and confusion of adolescence and the harsh circumstances of his dysfunctional family life in a small blue collar town in upstate New York during the 1970s. Whaley's first directorial effort shows his inexperience at various moments, but it is this exact lack of expertise that lifts the film above standard coming-of-age fare into a realm of honesty that most major motion pictures never attain. The fact that the friends he recruited to help fill integral roles just so happen to be Kilmer, Hawke, and Leguizamo didn't hurt matters either.
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- Sales Rank: 47,716
- UPC: 031398724537
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