Joe

Peter Boyle delivers a strong and raw performance as Joe Curran, a racist factory worker who hates "hippies and niggers." The film deals with New York City advertising executive Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick), who kills Frank (Patrick McDermott), the junkie lover of his daughter Melissa (Susan ...more

Joe was very much a product of its time, when the bloom was off the rose of the youth movement, and the public's cheerful fascination with hippies had turned sour in the wake of the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Manson Family murders, and the shooting of students by the National Guard at Kent State University. While Joe took a hard look at hatred of the counterculture in blue-collar America, it offered just as jaundiced a look at where the hippie movement had gone wrong in the previous four ...more