Joe - Norman Wexler 1970 Movie tie-in PBO Fine Unread

Description: Joe by Norman Wexler. New York, NY: Avon, 1970. #N-342. First printing, First edition Paperback Original. Paperback original in Fine unread condition. A beautiful collectible copy of this movie tie-in from 1970. 16 pages of photographs from the movie. Free shipping. Joe is a 1970 drama film written by Norman Wexler and directed by John G. Avildsen. It stars Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, and Susan Sarandon in her film debut. The film has garnered both critical acclaim and box office success. Produced on a tight budget of only $106,000, it was a sleeper hit and grossed over $19.3 million in the United States and Canada making it the 13th highest-grossing film of 1970. Joe received mostly positive reviews from critics, earning an 82% "Fresh" rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes from 11 reviews. Norman Wexler's screenplay received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Quentin Tarantino wrote in his book Cinema Speculation that Joe is "a kettle-black comedy about class in America, bordering on satire", and said that although contemporary viewers may find it controversial to call the film a black comedy, he recalled that the audience he saw the film with in 1970, watched the first section of Joe in silence, only to begin laughing "once Dennis Patrick enters the tavern, and Peter Boyle's Joe enters the movie,", having gone from "repulsed repose to outright hilarity". Tarantino says that "Boyle's comedic performance alleviates the picture's one-note ugliness". Variety wrote, "It sounds like heavy stuff, but scripter Norman Wexler has fleshed his serious skeleton with both melodrama plotting that sustains interest and the grittiest, most obscene dialog yet to boom from the silver screen. It works. Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and called it "a landmark film because of the issues and social norms it justifies. It is a dramatic, if not always sophisticated, documentary of a growing portion of the national mentality." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it "a fascinating, tendentious picture—a topical murder melodrama and social parable, done in that vivid, loaded, paranoid style which seems to have become a tradition in record time but which remains exciting to watch, even if you question the drift and outcome of the parable.

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