Joe (1998) - My Name Is

To save Liam from a local gang lord, Joe agrees to run drugs, an act that risks his hard-won sobriety and his relationship with Sarah, who cannot tolerate his involvement in the trade that destroys the families she works with every day. My Name Is Joe (1998)

Ken Loach's is a raw, heart-wrenching piece of social realism that avoids the typical "uplifting" clichés of addiction stories. Set in the council estates of Glasgow, it follows Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic who tries to build a new life while coaching a ragtag local football team. The Core Story My Name Is Joe (1998)

The film is built on a "wounded souls" romance between (Peter Mullan) and Sarah (Louise Goodall), a middle-class community health visitor. Their relationship offers Joe a ladder out of his past, but his loyalty to his friend Liam—a young man trapped in a dangerous cycle of drug debt—forces him into an impossible moral corner. To save Liam from a local gang lord,