Walkaway Joe

2020
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

David Strathairn and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Walkaway Joe (2020)

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Coming-of-Age Road Trip Action Drama

The story of an unlikely friendship between a young boy searching for his father, and a wandering loner hiding from his past.The story of an unlikely friendship between a young boy searching for his father, and a wandering loner hiding from his past.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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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
At the end when Dallas gets off the camper and goes home He does not have His Cue stick.

Goofs
Between the 24 minute and 27 minute mark when Dallas and Joe are travelling in the winnebago there is a reasonable breeze that is showing as being blown from the passenger window side. However, in the exterior scenes it is shown as being a calmer day proving that a green screen or some other SFX was at play in creating these SPX.

Quotes
[last lines]
Dallas McCarthy: Think God ever makes mistakes when he assigns children to their parents?
Joe Haley: I don't know.
Dallas McCarthy: He should have put us together.
Joe Haley: He did, son. He did.

Crazy credits
The first part of the closing credits roll on alternating footage of Joe driving his camper and scenery he passes.

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Featured review

6/10

The adults are some of the best character actors on the planet. So let's let this film rest on the shoulders of some kid who can't act.

Is this kid the son of some producer or something? This film could have been something halfway decent. It isn't. I knew in the first 15 minutes this kid wasn't right for this role. He's young, and might still have a future in front of him but this was too meaty a role to rest on the shoulders of someone so inexperienced and so obviously not up to the task. He looks and sounds like someone from the Hudson Valley but I'm supposed to buy that this kid is from Louisiana? It's a good enough story, standard run of the mill father/son/mentor picture and I really like these kinds of films, but it's bogged down by a poor lead performance. I don't regret watching it as I'm a huge Morgan/Strathairn fan. Emery is a good actress as well. It's not a bad story, just something that's been done a million times before, and better. Could have benefitted from a better lead.