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Beautiful Joe

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Movie propaganda

The last thing Joe needs is more bad luck. Unfortunately she's just arrived.

Hush (Sharon Stone), a single mother with a taste for gambling and fast living, gets in trouble with the mob and turns to Joe (Billy Connolly) for help, though the two make an odd couple.

Theatrical propaganda posters

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film romance drama crime Mafia

Persons of interest

Sharon Stone .... Alice "Hush" Mason
Billy Connolly .... Joe
Gil Bellows .... Elton
Jurnee Smollett .... Vivien
Dillon Moen .... Lee
Jaimz Woolvett .... Mouse
Alan C. Peterson .... Howdy
Dann Florek .... Happy
Ian Holm .... George The Geek
Sheila Paterson .... Mrs O'Malley
Frank C Turner .... Frank
Gina Chiarelli .... Pauline
Ben Johnson .... Gino
Connor Widdows .... Anthony
Barbara Tyson .... Sylvie
Stephen Metcalfe .... Screenwriter
Stephen Metcalfe .... Director

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Lock, stock and two smoking barrels. With a woman. Shot in the USA. Doesn't quite work, does it?

Beautiful Joe is the love story of an honest Scottish plumber and a lying American whore. It doesn't get any better. If you want your characters to be afraid of a criminal then the criminal has to be scary. If you don't take the criminal seriously you can't be scared of them. If the criminal is a cardboard cut-out from the school of loser crims (so much so that you can't see how they manage to make a living) then you can't take them seriously. If no-one is scared then running away from them becomes a joke.

*Sighs*

There's a blandness to Beautiful Joe that smacks of TV production values and does nothing to alleviate the boring bits. Loser Crim films have been done to death by much better directors and with much better scripts. Unfortunately, Hollywood is wringing every last cent from the genre and films like this are the result.

Security censorship classification

M (Low level coarse language, low level violence, low level sex scene)

Surveillance time

98 minutes (1:38 hours)

Not for public release in Australia before date

Film: 18 June 2001