''My Friend Joe'' is a 1996 film directed by Chris Bould starring Schuyler Fisk and John Cleere. The film is based on the 1985 Swedish novel ''Janne, min vän'' ('' Johnny, My Friend'') by

Peter Pohl Peter Pohl (born 5 December 1940) is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films. He has received prizes for several of his books and films, as well as for his entire work. From 1966 until his retirement in 2005, he wa ...

Plot summary

Chris' new best friend, the American Joe, turns out not to be a boy, but a girl.

Cast

* Schuyler Fisk as Joe * John Cleere as Chris Doyle *

Stephen McHattie Stephen McHattie Smith (born February 3, 1947) is a Canadian actor. Since beginning his professional career in 1970, he has amassed over 200 film and television credits. He won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in '' ...

as Curt *

Stanley Townsend Stanley Townsend is an Irish actor. Personal life Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the Dublin University ...

as Mr. Doyle *

Pauline McLynn Pauline McLynn (born 11 July 1962) is an Irish character actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Mrs. Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom ''Father Ted'', Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama '' Shameless'', Tip Haddem in the BBC ...

as Ms. Doyle *

Eoin Hughes Eoin () is a masculine Irish-language given name. The Scottish Gaelic equivalent is Eòin () and both are closely related to the Welsh . It is also cognate with the Irish and English John. In the Irish language, it is the name used for all Bibli ...

as Boyler * Mark Hannigan as Conor * Stuart Dannell-Foran as Noel *

Joel Grey Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, photographer, and theatre director. He is best known for portraying the Master of Ceremonies in the musical ''Cabaret (musical), Cabaret'' on Broadway theatre, ...

as Simon * Katie Carroll as Suzie *Katy Davis as Aideen *

Didier Pasquette Didier Pasquette is a noted French people, French tightrope walker. Pasquette studied with Philippe Petit (famous for his high wire walk between the former World Trade Center (1973–2001), Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York in 197 ...

as Nicolai

Awards and honors

* 16th

Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival is an international movie event held in Poznań in Poland since 1969. The festival focuses on more ambitious cinema addressed to children and young people. The main organizer of the festival is ' ...

, 1998 ** Chris Bould won "Silver Poznan Goat" for "Best Live-Action Film" ** The film won "Marcin - Children's Jury Award" for "Best Live-Action Film" ** Schuyler Fisk won "Poznań Goats" for Best Foreign Child Actor or Actress *

Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europ ...

, 1996 **Chris Bould won "Award of the Senator for Women, Youth and Family" * Carrousel International du Film, 1996 **Chris Bould won "Audience Camério" * German Children's-Film & TV-Festival, 1997 **The film won "Children Jury Golden Sparrow" for "Best Feature - Long" *

Chicago International Children's Film Festival In 1983, Facets Multi-Media founded the Chicago International Children's Film Festival (CICFF), the first competitive festival of films for children in the U.S. The impetus for the Festival came from a need to introduce new, culturally diverse fi ...

, 1998 **Chris Bould won 2nd prize "Children's Jury Award" for "Feature Film and Video"

External links

* 1996 films German drama films Irish drama films 1996 drama films English-language German films Films shot in Cologne British drama films Films based on Swedish novels 1990s English-language films 1990s British films 1990s German films {{1990s-drama-film-stub