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Joe Dirt (2001) 5.5
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5.5/10 from 28,078 users
Metascore: 20/100
Reviews: 195 user | 70 critic | 26 from Metacritic.com David Spade stars as Joe Dirt, an idiot who works as an oil weller who is on the search for his parents who abandoned him when he was a baby at the grand canyon. Director:Dennie Gordon |
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Cast
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| David Spade | ... | ||
| Brittany Daniel | ... | ||
| Dennis Miller | ... | ||
| Adam Beach | ... | ||
| Christopher Walken | ... | ||
| Jaime Pressly | ... | ||
| Kid Rock | ... | ||
| Erik Per Sullivan | ... | ||
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Megan Taylor Harvey | ... | |
| Caroline Aaron | ... |
Joe's Mom
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| Fred Ward | ... |
Joe's Dad
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| John Farley | ... |
Security Guard
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| Bob Zany | ... |
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Bean Miller | ... |
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Lee Walker | ... |
Zeke
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Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks. As his wandering, misguided search takes him from one hilarious misadventure to another, Joe finds his way to Los Angeles, where a shock-jock brings Joe on his radio show to insult him. But as Joe's life story unfolds, jeers turn to cheers, and an entire captivated city tunes in to hear the adventures of Joe Dirt. Written by Anonymous
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From the producing team that brought you DEUCE BIGALOW and BIG DADDY See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor, and for language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
11 April 2001 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Adventures of Joe Dirt See more »Box Office
Budget:
$17,700,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$8,016,008 (USA) (13 April 2001)Gross:
$27,087,695 (USA) (1 June 2001)Company Credits
Production Co:
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Happy Madison Productions, Robert Simonds Productions See more »
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Written by Jim Fox (as James Fox), Dale Peters and Joe Walsh
Performed by James Gang
Courtesy of MCA Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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Did You Know?
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The part about the dog's kibble getting frozen to the porch and thawed with warm water and a spatula is from comic Tom McGillen's act. McGillen is a friend of writer Fred Wolf and also has a small part in the film. See more »Goofs
When Joe drives through the security gate, he clearly breaks the crossing arm but the next angle shows it intact. See more »Soundtracks
"Funk #49"Written by Jim Fox (as James Fox), Dale Peters and Joe Walsh
Performed by James Gang
Courtesy of MCA Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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I braced myself for yet another film with low grade humour, plenty of bodily function jokes and not enough plot to go around.
Well, 'Joe Dirt' has all that and more... but surprisingly it turned out to be not half bad.
Perhaps the day of the preview caught me in a particularly good mood, because this story of a white trash loser searching for his parents who left him for dead at the Grand Canyon when he was eight was relatively enjoyable entertainment.
The movie is told primarily in flashback; Joe stumbles into the studio of a radio disc jockey who coaxes out of him his incredible life story. In the process Joe Dirt becomes a media darling as his story of woe and misfortune is heard by an ever sympathetic audience.
This is another movie which relies on the gross and disgusting to get its laughs; dogs balls stuck to the front porch, being covered in excrement, blowing up atom bombs, consumed by alligators and much much more!
The movie works for the most part because of David Spade's affable loser Joe Dirt. He plays a character that is not a 100 miles away from his 'Just Shoot Me' personna - a loveable idiot. He goes through life having all these setbacks - but he still maintains his positive outlook.
The movie does lag a bit at the three quarters mark, but this is a minor quibble for a film that does what is sets out to with a lot more style than its lamentable cousins.
A whole lotta fun
6 out of 10.