Joe Bell

2020

Drama

The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high school for being gay.

"Redemption is a journey you can't take alone."

Rating

6.53
246 votes

Popularity

3.5033

Origin & Countries

US | en | United States of America,Switzerland,Luxembourg

Production

Nine Stories Productions,Argent Pictures,Endeavor Content,Parliament of Owls,Rhea Films,Stay Gold Features,VisionChaos Productions,Closest to the Hole Productions,Hercules Film Fund,Leverage Entertainment

Runtime

93 min.

Budget (M$)

1.7 / 3.5ROI 49%

Status

Released

Release: 9/14/2020

Credits

Joe Bell

Reinaldo Marcus GreenDirector

Joe Bell

Mark WahlbergJoe Bell

Joe Bell

Reid MillerJadin Bell

Joe Bell

Connie BrittonLola Bell

Joe Bell

Maxwell JenkinsJoseph Bell

More like this

Mamma qui comando io
2023
Comedy • Family
5.6
0
I Work at the Cemetery
7.2
0
The Truffle Hunters
2020
Documentary
7.7
1
The Fighting Temptations
2003
Comedy • Music • Romance
5.8
1
Da grandi
2023
Comedy • Family
6.1
0

Reviews

CinemaSerf

4/13/2022

6 / 10

Reid Miller is quite engaging here as the bullied gay youngster Jadin Bell. His time at school is torrid, and he seems unable to secure any help to protect him from the bigoted assholes he must face each day. His father (Mark Wahlberg) is supportive, but in a 'don't ask don't tell" sort of fashion, the appalling position also taken by the principal at his school. Eventually, the pressure all just proves too much and the young man takes his own life. This inspires his father to try to walk from their home to New York raising the issues of homophobia and bullying as he goes. Wahlberg's name is what will do the work here; his participation in highlighting these issues of both physical and psychological intimidation ought to resound with whomever watches this, reads about it, or sees any of his publicity blurb. As a piece of cinema, though, it's pretty mediocre. Barring a scene with the two leads doing a bit of a Lady Gaga routine, the drama and the acting are fairly sterile and it takes recourse to a few handsome, but cop-out, power ballads when the script runs out of anything meaningful to say. It's a shocking testament that this still goes on in 2022 in a nation that purports to be civilised - and though this film, in itself, is largely forgettable, let's hope the message isn't.

MOVIZZ - all rights reserved @ 2025

Made with themoviedb.org