- JoE - { 1970 }

[Foolardi]

A veritable must see movie.However good luck trying
to find a copy.Or on some late night cable movie outlet.
I lucked out on a copy decades ago.I watch it every year
around this time.Simply putz ... it mimics almost to a tee
what we are watching unfold Politically and generationally.
There's a scene where the two main characters are out after
dark in coventry or some Hippie hangout trying hoping to find
the daughter of a very well to do father. His daughter was living
with a super druggie who spent his days either doing drugs
or convincing himself he's a Painter.
The Daughter ended-up taking too many pills and freaked
out in a nearby drug store and had to be hospitalized.
But the real story is the entire environment.Hippies
vs. Straights.There's a scene where when the Rich father
and his new buddy { Peter Boyle } are out looking for daughter
who got released from the hospital and learned her drug-peddling
boyfriend was murdered by the father who located his hovel
where the daughter lived.

 

[Foolardi]

The two men { now after less then a week } One a rich executive
with a great corner office overlooking the city and JOE
just an ordinary schmo who worked laboring in some hot
iron fabricating mill.
They are out on this night looking for the daughter
who snuck back home after releasing herself from the
hospital early.She sneaks back home { High class Apartment }
and overhears her parents discuss what happened to her
Hippie/drug peddling boyfriend.She freaks out and says a few words
to her parents and bolts out to the elevator in shock.
The scene that makes this movie so appropo is when the two
fathers are looking for the daughter who ran off in a hippie
neighborhood { Coventry }.
They come across a few Hippie stores and in one there's a huge
poster of Richard Nixon smiling big with the words ... "
Would YOU buy a used car from this man ?

 

[Foolardi]

That is exactly,precisely what the Left of today is
pulling on Trump.

 

[toobfreak]

A veritable must see movie.However good luck trying
to find a copy.

I saw that movie when it came out. It was a somewhat shocking and darkly disturbing film with a tragic ending that leaves an impression on you after it is over. A classic 70s film with some really good music in it. Doesn't Jimi Hendrix play in it?

I just checked my video archive and amazingly, I don't have a copy of it! Now I'm going to have to find a copy of it.

BTW, Boyle is great in it.

 

[Mr Natural]

The inspiration for the Archie Bunker character.