- Release Date: 2000
- Runtime: 104 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Sarah Hyland ... see all
- Director: Stanley Tucci
- Plot: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing... Read more
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| Aug 04, 2000Deseret News
At this point in time, the columnist has been unable to find interesting subjects for his articles - until he meets the dilapidated-looking Gould, whose incoherent mumbling sometimes contains just the slightest trace of intelligence.
One thing he has managed to do, though, is find the perfect actor to play the film's tricky but pivotal role - veteran British character-actor Ian Holm, whose riveting performance as Gould nearly salvages the whole thing.
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| Jun 06, 2000Film Monthly
Joe Gould's Secret is a very well-crafted piece of filmmaking, and well worth the viewing, especially if you enjoy watching actors who truly show how its done without giving away of the illusion or mechanics involved.
Holm's most recogizable role for most American audiences would probably be as the android in the original film Alien).
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| May 12, 2000Jam! Movies
Joe's Secret well worth revealing
Stanley Tucci is on record about how much he loves the style and grace of New York City in the 1940s, and his passion comes through loud and clear in the visual beauty of Joe Gould's Secret.
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| May 12, 2000theglobeandmail.com
without any patronizing hint of sweetness, by the great Ian Holm.....Tucci, who won audiences with the beautiful slowness of the ending of Big Night , has returned to his strengths here.... ... Full Review
| Apr 07, 2000Salon
Stanley Tucci's film, starring Tucci as Mitchell and Ian Holm as Gould, is faithful to the facts of the story....adept at actors' moments and quiet scenes.... ... Full Review
News
Joe Gould's Secret
calendarlive.com –
2000-04-06
Friday April 7, 2000 Exuberantly played by Ian Holm, Joe Gould is the loudest man in the quiet, carefully modulated namesake film, "Joe Gould's Secret," but he'd be loud even in a noisy one. ... Full Article
Tucci's movie full of secrets
suntimes.com –
2000-01-25
PARK CITY, Utah I've seen 10 movies so far at this year's Sundance Film Festival, some of them, I fear, destined to play nowhere else. ... Full Article
The real secret behind Joe Gould's Secret is how multi-talented farceur Stanley Tucci ended up making such a slight and enervated drama. While not exactly a complete misfire, Gould is surprisingly listless coming from the man responsible for such screwball... ... Full Article
The very thought of Stanley Tucci's new movie -- his sure-footed but languorous new movie -- is certain to rankle inveterate New Yorker readers who bristle and weep every time someone utters the words "Tina Brown." ... Full Article
JOE GOULD'S SECRET Rated:R For movie details, please click here . Between the cacophony of the extravagant, loud Hollywood machine and the chaos of the rude, brassy independent scene-both so often fueled by ego and attitude alone-Stanley Tucci is emerging... ... Full Article
Set in New York City during the 1940s and 50s, a time when artists and writers often gathered together in a neighborhood called Greenwich Village, this is the true story of the friendship between famed New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell... ... Full Article



