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Joe

In a collision of cultures, an odd friendship grows between a wealthy executive and a blue-collar welder. Their bond is a common fear and frustration with the liberals and "hippies" who are ruining the country.

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  • "In a collision of cultures, an odd friendship grows between a wealthy executive and a blue-collar welder. Their bond is a common fear and frustration with the liberals and "hippies" who are ruining the country."@en
  • "Account of how an average "Joe" becomes a murderer. An odd friendship grows between a businessman and a blue-collar welder as they search for the businessman's runaway daughter. They are thrust into the midst of the counter-culture, a shocking and humiliating experience that ends in senseless acts of violence."
  • "Violence results during the 1960's sparked by a conflict of values between youth and adults."@en
  • "Violence results during the 1960's sparked by a conflict of values between youth and adults."
  • "A hardhat bigot becomes lost in the 60's drug culture of New York with unexpected savage results. Peter Boyle and Susan Sarandon star in this powerful film."@en
  • "An account of how an average "Joe" becomes a murderer. A friendship grows between a wealthy executive and a blue-collar welder due to their common fear and frustration with the "liberals" and "hippies" who are ruining the country."@en
  • "A construction worker in a bar meets a businessman who has just killed his daughter's drug-addicted lover. They become buddies in their hatred of hippies, drugs and free sex ... a new morality they cannot accept."@en
  • "An account of how an average "Joe" becomes a murderer. A friendship grows between a wealthy executive and a blue-collar welder due to their common fear and frustration with the "liberals" and "hippies" who are ruining the country."
  • "The shared distrust of "hippie youth" leads factory worker Joe Curran and advertising executive Bill Compton to become friends. Bill has a daughter Melissa whose involvement in drugs leads both Bill and Joe to the East Village in New York City, where they are exposed to the hippie lifestyle they detest. Subsequently they become involved in a wild adventure that explodes with a dramatic conclusion."@en
  • "Dennis Patrick, Peter Boyle and Susan Sarandon star in this hard- hitting drama about two unlikely friends who are thrust into the center of a violent and shocking dilemma."@en
  • "The chilling story of a hardhat bigot driven to violence and murder."@en
  • "Joe Curran (Boyle) is a flag-waving, hippie-loathing factory worker. When he discovers that ad executive Bill Compton (Patrick) accidentally murdered a local drug-pusher, Joe believes he has found an ally and mentor. They go in search of Compton's daughter (Sarandon) who has run away to Greenwich Village. Their search for her amidst the psychedelic sensuality of 1960's Village counter culture brings their seething hatred to the surface with savage results."@en
  • "Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend and in the ensuing argument kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is "different", and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe."@en

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  • "Thrillers (Motion pictures)"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "fiction policière (fiction)"
  • "Feature films"@en

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