My Name Is Joe

Ken Loach directed this honest and perceptive character study about a recovering alcoholic (Peter Mullan). Mullan is brilliant as Joe Kavanagh, who, with the help of AA, has been working toward getting his life back, as well as starting a romance with a warm and loving woman (Louise Goodall). David McKay, Anne-Marie Kennedy, David Hayman, Gary Lewis., Joe is an unemployed reformed alcoholic who manages a bumbling soccer team. One of the players is Liam, who is in debt to dealer McGowan. Liam and junkie Sabine are raising a small son. When Joe meets social worker Sarah, a romance develops, and they help Liam and Sabine., Ken Loach’s most commercially successful film, funded by FilmFour, introduces a season of films by one of Britain’s most acclaimed directors. My Name Is Joe stars Cannes Award winner Peter Mullan and Louise Goodall. He’s a recovering alcoholic-turned-amateur-soccer-coach who, despite all advice, falls for her, a health service worker. The film is about their growing romance, at turns funny, sexy and dramatic, told against a backdrop of drug deals and violence in Glasgow’s badlands and with an ending that is surprisingly shocking., Ken Loach’s perceptive character study of a recovering alcoholic (Peter Mullan) struggling to put his life back together and starting a romance with a woman., Filmed entirely in Glasgow, with a largely non-professional cast made up of former alcoholics and drug users, the FilmFour funded My Name Is Joe takes a look at the problems facing the post-Thatcher underclass, for whom oblivion is a way of life. Joe is a reformed drinker who tries to help local boy Liam, a heroin addict, to stay away from drugs and rebuild his life. But local drug dealers want their money and Liam has a serious problem.