Joe (1970 film)

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Joe is a 1970 American satirical drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, from a screenplay by Norman Wexler, and starring Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, and Susan Sarandon in her film debut. The film follows New York business executive Bill Compton (Patrick) as his life unravels into murderous chaos after he kills his daughter Melissa's drug-dealing boyfriend Frank Russo and enters into a peculiar partnership with factory worker Joe Curran (Boyle), a veteran with racist fantasies of vigilante violence. Their search for the missing Melissa (Sarandon) leads to a raid on a hippie commune that turns into mass murder where Compton mistakenly shoots his own daughter. The film's plot coincidentally resembled a real-life mass murder in Detroit, where the killer Arville Garland had killed his own daughter Sandra. The real-life killer gained publicity for his actions, and received letters of support from hundreds of parents. The film has received praise for its dark humor and satire of social class.

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