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Michael Milillo is known for Walkaway Joe (2020), Churchill (2017) and Oscar's Options.
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The film, released in May 2020, is a sad-dad kid-on-the-run drama. Julian Feder plays Dallas McCarthy, whose dad, Cal (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), is a pool hall hustler and nine-ball-shooter looking to make easy money and stay out of trouble. Dallas’ home is a nightmare. Cal’s abusive toward his wife, Gina (Julie Ann Emery), and one morning, they get in...
We see a bit of Cal in Feder’s performance. Machismo affectations, like the bone-white cowboy hat he looks so small in or the badass veneer he puts on for nine-ball games, betrays his desire to emulate his father. (All Feder‘s angst conceals how little he resembles his supposedly 14-year-old character.) Without money or a ride to travel across Loui...
Contrived and narratively fixed though it is, Walkaway Joe has an unmistakable ring of truth. Dallas lives in a poor neighborhood in one of those copy-paste one-story homes. His mom’s struggling to pay the bills, and his father’s in debt over his head. The kid’s life is fenced off from the rest of the world for reasons outside of his control. Dalla...
At first glance, Walkaway Joe seems like little more than a run-of-the-mill kitchen sink drama with a nine-ball angle. But Wright’s film is remarkably poignant. It’s a nice, warm salve of a movie, a charming indie gem about the things in life you can’t run away from and the giants you have to topple to become your own person. And best of all, you d...
May 8, 2020 · Wright, making his feature directing debut, is stuck with thinly drawn types in cliched situations in the script from Michael Milillo. This is an overly familiar story of fathers and sons, of cycles of abandonment and years of pent-up resentments, without any fresh insight.
May 8, 2020 · In the tradition of American classics, WALKAWAY JOE is the story of an unlikely friendship between a young boy searching for his father, and a wandering loner hiding from his past. In each other they experience the power of a second chance, and a shot at redemption. — Michael Milillo.
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- Action, Drama
- Tom Wright
- 2020-05-08
Nov 2, 2019 · Tom Wright directs from a screenplay by Michael Milillo (Churchill). Julie Ann Emery and Julian Feder also star in the redemption story of a teenage boy and a drifter, set against the backdrop...
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