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Beautiful Joe (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 5

Fresh: 3

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Average Rating: 5.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Having left the Big Apple after a string of startling personal revelations, Joe (Billy Connolly) washes up in Louisville, Kentucky, where he happens upon a sultry ex-stripper named Hush (Sharon... Having left the Big Apple after a string of startling personal revelations, Joe (Billy Connolly) washes up in Louisville, Kentucky, where he happens upon a sultry ex-stripper named Hush (Sharon Stone) who is in serious debt to local crime czar George the Geek. Soon enough, Joe's fallen in love, and he and Hush are on the lam in Vegas, staying just one step ahead of George's henchmen. But is Hush really to be trusted? [More]

Starring: Sharon Stone, Billy Connolly, Gil Bellows, Jurnee Smollett

Starring: Sharon Stone, Billy Connolly, Gil Bellows, Jurnee Smollett, Ian Holm

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Eric Lurio
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Beautiful Joe is incredibly sentimental and sappy, but it's very enjoyable for just those reasons.

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