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  1. May 8, 2020 · “Walkaway Joe” shares its title with the classic, 1992 Trisha Yearwood tune about a mother warning her daughter to stay away from the charming but dangerous young man who’s stolen her heart. (The video features a baby-faced Matthew McConaughey as the titular bad boy, in case you’re curious.)

  2. May 8, 2020 · Walkaway Joe (2020) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis A boy in search of his father develops an unlikely friendship with a loner who's trying to forget the...

    • (5)
    • David Strathairn
    • Tom Wright
    • Drama
  3. Walkaway Joe Reviews. 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...

  4. May 8, 2020 · Walkaway Joe: Directed by Tom Wright. With David Strathairn, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Julian Feder, Julie Ann Emery. The story of an unlikely friendship between a young boy searching for his father, and a wandering loner hiding from his past.

    • (1.4K)
    • Action, Drama
    • Tom Wright
    • 2020-05-08
    • Skip School, Play Pool
    • Searching For Sad Dad
    • Nine-Ball Rules
    • Conclusion

    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...

  5. Walkaway Joe is a 2020 American drama film directed by Tom Wright in his feature directorial debut. The film stars David Strathairn, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Julian Feder, and Julie Ann Emery. It tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a young boy searching for his father and a wandering loner hiding from his past.

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