Joe Dirt
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| Directed by | Dennie Gordon |
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Robert Simonds Ira Shuman Executive: Jack Giarraputo Adam Sandler |
| Written by |
David Spade Fred Wolf |
| Starring | David Spade Brittany Daniel Dennis Miller Adam Beach Christopher Walken Jaime Pressly Kid Rock |
| Music by | Waddy Wachtel |
| Cinematography | John R. Leonetti |
| Edited by | Peck Prior |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $17.7 million |
| Box office | $31 million |
Joe Dirt is a 2001 American adventure comedy film starring David Spade, Dennis Miller, Christopher Walken, Adam Beach, Brian Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Jaime Pressly, Erik Per Sullivan, and Kid Rock. The film was written by Spade and Fred Wolf, and produced by Robert Simonds.
The plot concerns a "white trash" young man, Joe Dirt, who at first seems to be a "loser", a failure, an antihero. As he travels in search of his parents, his fine qualities are increasingly revealed. He ends up with a new "family" of close friends, people he has helped and who respect him.
A sequel, Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser, premiered on Crackle on July 16, 2015.
Joe Dirt is the janitor at a Los Angeles radio station. A producer drags him into the studio to talk live on the air with famous disc jockey, shock jock Zander Kelly.
Joe tells his life story. As a baby he had a mullet wig installed because the top of his skull had never formed. At age 8, he was left behind by his parents and sister at the Grand Canyon. He does not know his real surname. After growing up in a series of foster homes, Joe arrived in Silvertown, a small town in the Pacific Northwest, where he met the beautiful Brandy and her dog, Charlie, and became a target for jealousy from Robby, the town bully.
After Brandy's alcoholic father shoots Charlie dead, Joe decides to try to find his parents. He strikes up a friendship with Kicking Wing, an unsuccessful Native American fireworks salesman. In Indiana, Joe has an encounter with a skin cannibal named Buffalo Bob. This brings him unwanted attention from the media, but helps his search. He travels to Louisiana and works as a high school janitor with "Clem Doore", a former NYC mobster in the Witness Protection Program, with whom he becomes good friends. Joe discovers the address of his old family home and travels to Baton Rouge.
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