13. Joe
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan and Gary Poulter
Synopsis: An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin.
Joe is a film that explores the journey of masculinity, painted in the bleak and brutal surroundings of a small southern American town. This unsettling drama packs a honest and observant punch. It's refreshing to see director David Gordon Green return to the serious, character driven material. He wasted his time on films like Your Highness, The Sitter and Pineapple Express. He has an organic storytelling manner that fits these rural stylistic films perfectly. He can intertwine sudden doses of violence with cynical humour effortlessly within a few moments of each other.
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