Movie Review

Joe the King (1999)

Reviewed by Bruce Fretts | Oct 29, 1999
EW's GRADE
C

Details Rated: R; Genre: Drama; With: Noah Fleiss and Val Kilmer

A film so willfully bleak and profanity-filled, it could have only been written and directed by an actor, Frank Whaley's drama strains for realism as it follows a 14-year-old (Noah Fleiss) drifting into a life of petty crime. C

Originally posted Oct 29, 1999 Published in issue #509 Oct 29, 1999 Order article reprints
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