Joe (1970 film)

Joe is a 1970 American drama film written by Norman Wexler and directed by John G. Avildsen. It stars Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, and Susan Sarandon in her film debut. The film follows New York business executive Bill Compton as his life unravels into murderous chaos after he kills his daughter Melissa's drug-dealing boyfriend Frank Russo and enters into a peculiar partnership with factory worker Joe Curran, a veteran with racist fantasies of vigilante violence. Their search for the missing Melissa leads to a raid on a hippie commune that turns into mass murder where Compton mistakenly shoots his own daughter.