Joe's Palace

An extraordinary film that exposes the tortured and amoral empty world of power, position and possession. Michael Gambon plays Elliot Graham a man of deep sensitivity who has inherited a great fortune from his father, the symbolic opulent and empty house Joe's Place, being one of them. Graham is paralyzed by the need to find out how his father's wealth was acquired and fears the worst, I won't say what that is to not give the revelation, in itself an indictment, away; is seen in contrast to that of Joe Dix, a guileless Everyman character played to perfection by Danny Lee Winters whose performance was utterly mesmerizing. Gambon of course can, yes, make reading the phone book, riveting. See this extraordinary film.