Joe Somebody

Name: Joe Somebody
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: December 19, 2001
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 42
Cast: Tim Allen

2001

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JOE SOMEBODY

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: December 19, 2001

Starring: Tim Allen

Summary: Joe (Allen) is a divorced corporate drone whose dead-end personal and professional lives begin to turn around after the office bully humiliates Joe in front of his daughter.

Director: John Pasquin

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 98 min

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Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas

Joe Somebody sends audiences home happy but also with an awareness that happy endings have to be earned in real life as on the screen. Read full review

Boston Globe - Jay Carr

The cop-out is mitigated by Allen's ability to impart a comfortable, lived-in quality to his roles, this one included.

Variety - Scott Foundas

Pretty formulaic stuff: bland self-empowerment tinged with warm fuzzies in all the right places. But what makes this "Somebody" something is Pasquin's deft touch and understanding with the material. Read full review

Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold

It's routine, TV sitcom fodder, but the supporting cast is better than average. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine - Steve Simels

The picture is nearly stolen, however, by co-star Greg Germann (of TV's Ally McBeal) in the role of Joe's company's resident corporate weasel. Germann's squinty-eyed insincerity is truly a marvel to behold, and it's an astringent corrective to the film's rather too frequent feel-good passages. Read full review

New Times (L.A.) - Luke Y. Thompson

It isn't until Joe starts getting confident and cocky that Allen starts to feel a little more natural in the role, and by then the movie's plot has all but evaporated into a series of wispy gags that barely register. Read full review

Chicago Reader - Lisa Alspector

Wasn't worth Allen's time and isn't worth yours. Read full review

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Aug 11, 2016

I really think it is a movie with a good message that it takes a better person to walk away from a fight than to have friends. And it is Fun and humorous.

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