TITLE : Joe Dirt
YEAR OF RELEASE : 2001
CLASSIFICATION : M
DIRECTOR : Dennie Gordon
STARRING : David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Dennis Miller,
Adam Beach, Christopher Walken, Jaime Pressly, Kid Rock, Fred Ward, Megan Taylor Harvey, Caroline Aaron
FILM REVIEW :
David Spade plays "Joe Dirt", (complete with mullet hair-do) a janitor who was abandoned as a child & is now in search of his long lost parents (father played by "Remo" star Fred Ward). The film is hit & miss moving from one comedic set piece to the next. Look out for the hilarious cameo by James Bond villian Christopher Walken. Singer Kid Rock also appears in a small role. "Joe Dirt" was made on a budget of 16 million dollars & knocked by the critics but nevertheless grossed over 27 million dollars in the US alone. The tagline sums up the movie "He Came. He Cleaned. He Conquered".
Joe Dirt(2001) VHS
Joe Dirt [DVD](2001) DVD
David Spade is the lead character, a stuck-in-the '70s radio station janitor who tells his sad and silly life story on the air to shock jock Dennis Miller. Spade talks about being abandoned by his trailer trash parents at the Grand Canyon at age 8, his less-than-hip mullet hairstyle (he claims it's a wig that was stapled onto his head in infancy) and his unlucky love life. Brittany Daniel, Kid Rock, Adam Beach, Jaime Pressly and Erik Per Sullivan co-star. 91 min. Widescreen (Enhanced) and Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby 5.1 and Dolby Surround, French; Subtitles: English, French; audio commentary by Spade; outtakes; bloopers; deleted scenes; theatrical trailers; scene access.
