My Name Is Joe (1998)

(Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival 1998)

Joe is on the wagon, but still raw after chaotic years drinking. He is bursting with energy, determined to live life to the full and runs the worst football team in Glasgow. Sarah, private and independent, is a Health Visitor who lives for her work.

They cross swords over a young couple, Liam and Sabine, who are struggling to maintain a semblance of family life for themselves and their little boy, while coping with their own personal demons. Joe and Sarah are both committed in their own ways to helping Liam and Sabine, and are thrown together because of them. A wild romance begins, but in a life where the choices are never simple, can their love survive?

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