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Joe (Joseph McIntosh) leads a miserable life: He's a cabdriver - a job
he detests -, he lives alone in his run-down apartment, his social skills
are poor so he has no real friends let alone a girlfriend, and heck, even
his imaginary friend is an old bible-quoting drunkard, and he misses his
sister who died from cancer more than 20 years ago terribly. The one thing
he lives for is writing poetry, poetry about his life that's really good
and deep and powerful even, and which he performs every Tuesday on open
mike night. And quite a few times, he moves one of the ladies in the room
to tears - but when they chat him up, he either becomes all evasive or
says exactly the wrong things. Problem is, these girls tend to disappear
... Joe's new neighbour Joel (Joel Potrykus) is quick to notice there's
something odd about Joe, what with him carrying a fuel canister and a saw
with him all the time. And he also knows one of the girls gone missing
(Marjorie Pierson Yost) has last been seen at Joe's apartment ... but deep
down, Joel is just as lonely as Joe, and he even tries to become friends
with him - and this is where the problems really start ... The
Joe Show most certainly is an utterly unusual film: For the most part
carried by Joseph McIntosh's rather powerful and darkly ironic one man
show, it manages to organically interweave this with a psycho thriller
plot with quite a few twists and turns you won't suspect and quite a
surprise ending - and Joseph McIntosh's performance in both these parts of
the film is rather compelling, actually much more so than his rather
antisocial character would suggest. And add to this a rather subtle
direction (surprisingly subtle, considering the director's other,
effects-heavy work), and you've got yourself a pretty good film!
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