Beautiful Joe

Starring: Billy Connolly, Sharon Stone Director: Stephen Metcalfe Original UK Premiere: 2000 Dvd Release: 14th October, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Beautiful Joe is a well-intentioned film. The problem is that it tries for both comedy & drama, & succeeds in neither. Amiable Irishman Joe , after one of the worst days imaginable, decides to leave his adopted New York home & seek adventure. Unfortunately, he runs into Hush & gets Far More Adventure than He Bargained For. Stones character is the standard beautiful-but-messed-up-woman-who-needs-rescuing that is for some mystifying reason supposed to be appealing. And yes, of course she has a mute son who just might speak if only he had the right reason. Stone is stretching herself here, & is clearly eager to play a character: she mugs, she drawls, she wiggles & she cries. Not a scrap of scenery escapes her gullet; at times her attempts at comedy actually become sort of upsetting. Ally McBeals Gil Bellows turns in a similarly inept & cartoonish comic performance. Beautiful Joes one saving grace is Connolly, who manages to rise above his fellow cast members & the bizarre editing to turn in a charming, dignified performance.

William Billy Connolly, is a comedian, musician & actor. Billy Connolly was born in Glasgow, Scotland to Mary & William Connolly, the son of an Irish immigrant. Connolly was brought up in the Anderston & later, Partick districts of Glasgow & attended Saint Gerards Secondary School. He started his working life as a welder in a Glasgow shipyard but left that trade to become a folk singer. Together with Tam Harvey he started a group called the Humblebums, which later included Gerry Rafferty. Connolly sang, played banjo & guitar & entertained the audience with his humorous introductions to the songs. Eventually the duo broke up & Billy went solo. His first solo album in 1972, Billy Connolly Live! on Transatlantic Records, features Billy as a singer, songwriter & musician. His early albums were a mixture of comedy performances with musical interludes, but by the late 1980s Connolly had all but dropped the music from his act, though he still records the occasional musical performance. It is as a comedian that Connolly is best known. His observational humour is idiosyncratic. Posters Of The Man Who Sued God

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Sharon Stone, is an American actress, model & producer. Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA. In 1975, she won the Miss Pennsylvania beauty pageant. She made her film debut in Woody Allen s Stardust Memories & had a speaking part a year later in the horror movie Deadly Blessing. She married Michael Greenburg in 1984, a marriage which lasted just 3 years. In the 1980s she played many parts in B-movies such as King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain & the Lost City of Gold. Her appearance in Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger gave her her first wide exposure. She subsequently posed nude for Playboy at the age of 32. Her role in the sexually-charged Basic Instinct brought her to greater notoriety & the film became a popular cult movie. In that year, she was rated by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. In 1995, Empire magazine chose her as one of the 100 sexiest stars in film history. Posters Of Sharon Stone

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