It's A Brutal Life in 'Joe the King'"Joe the King" isn't your usual coming-of-age tale. The movie's 14-year-old hero doesn't get the girl. His experiences growing up in the '70s aren't nostalgic. And his role models are non-existent. What makes Joe memorable is his tenacious spirit, something emphasized by this film's unsentimental approach to his vulnerability. Frank Whaley, an actor making his writing-directing debut, has cast this indie feature with some stars, although the true standout is Noah Fleiss in the title role. From the opening sequence, it's clear that Joe is one of those troubled kids destined for the detention center. In a cameo as a monstrous school teacher, Camryn Manheim proceeds to pull down Joe's pants and spank him in front of his peers after he refuses to acknowledge his father's occupation as the school janitor. Home life isn't getting any better for the youngster. Val Kilmer co-stars as the boy's drunken and abusive dad, and Karen Young plays his absentee mother, who works too muc
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Published: 2009-02-18
Provider: Hollywood
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Blast!, Rated: NR, Opens: 06/11/2009Paul Devlin follows the story of his brother, Mark Devlin PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists hoping to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon.
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Published: 2009-06-06
Provider: Hollywood
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Brooke Smith (42)A tall (5'10"), striking brunette, Brooke Smith garnered attention as the tenacious captive of a serial killer in Jonathan Demme's Oscar-winning "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) and as Sonya in Louis Malle's "Vanya on 42nd Street" (1994). The daughte
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Published: 2009-05-23
Provider: Hollywood
Keywords: Brooke Smith home page to view photos, read Brooke Smith news & biography, see interviews, find movies at Hollywood.com.
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John Madden (60)Prolific director of stage, TV, and radio drama in London and New York who has demonstrated a particular flair for literary adaptations. Madden started out in the long, moribund yet tenacious genre of radio drama, directing the NPR dramatic series "Ear".
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Published: 2009-04-08
Provider: Hollywood
Keywords: John Madden home page to view photos, read John Madden news & biography, see interviews, find movies at Hollywood.com.
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