Joe is a 2013 American drama film on DVD, directed by David Gordon Green and starring Nicolas Cage.
Award-winning director David Gordon Green (PRINCE AVALANCHE, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, UNDERTOW, ALL THE REAL GIRLS), gives Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage his best role in years as the hard-living, hot-tempered, ex-con Joe Ransom.
Joe hires teenaged Gary Jones (Tye Sheridan; MUD, THE TREE OF LIFE) and his destitute father to help out his “tree-poisoning” crew. While Joe might be notoriously reckless with his pick-up, his dog and especially with women, he sees something in Gary that gets to him: a determination, a raw decency and a sense of resilience which draws them together in an unlikely friendship.
When Gary finds himself facing a threat greater than he knows how to handle, he turns to Joe, setting off a chain of events that play out with the brutal inevitability of tragedy and the beauty of a last stab at salvation.
Special Features:
- Interviews with Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter & David Gordon Green
- Behind the Scenes Featurette
- Theatrical Trailer
Joe Film Reviews
“If you need a reminder of what a fine, nuanced actor Nicolas Cage can be, take a look at Joe…The film belongs to Cage” Rolling Stone
“Joe is the Nicolas Cage comeback I didn't realize I was waiting for.” People Magazine
“Joe sees Nicolas Cage hit heights that he has rarely reached in the decade since ADAPTATION netted him an Oscar nomination… If you want to see him carve a deer, wrangle a snake, or simply give his best performance in recent memory, then Joe is the film for you” Film4
“A powerful, stark and rather beautiful film…What gives the film its heart is the clear chemistry between Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan” Screen International
“Nicolas Cage gives one of his most incisively nuanced performances in years in another distinctive film from David Gordon Green.” The Hollywood Reporter