Joe Dirt: Summary

Essay #2/Summary Joe Dirt is an American adventure comedy starring David Spade as Joe Dirt and was released in 2001. This movie is set Los Angeles, California where Joe retells his story of being on his own since the age of eight. He does this over the radio on the Zander Kelly Show which thought his white trash ways would be amusing to listeners. Over a span of three days Joe tells his life story to listeners transforming himself from a janitor to an in celebrity due to his touching story. The general plot of Joe Dirt will be summarized focusing only on the main points in the movie. Initially, Joe and his family are vacationing at the Grand Canyon when he is thought to be inadvertently left there, but this is not the case as days go by with no signs help. After many days of being alone Joe is picked up by the cops who in turn place him into foster care. This lasts for several years until the young man finds himself in a juvenile detention center due to his poor behavior in multiple foster homes. Joe’s not in there for long, because one night he sneaks out and returns to living on his own. Even though he has been through so much already, Joe doesn’t give up hope of one day finding his parents. Years pass and the now teenager meets a girl named Brandi who ultimately becomes his family. Charlie, Brandi’s dog becomes Joe’s best friend, while Robby a local in Silvertown becomes his worst enemy. Robby a longtime lover of Brandi gets upset after she turns all of her attention to Joe instead of him. A few more years go by and Joe finally decides to move on with his search for his parents because Charlie was killed by her alcoholic father, which in turn devastated Brandi. Subsequently, Joe moved away and tried to aid his search by getting a job as a sign dancer. Sadly this didn’t last long because one day he tried to secure down the stores hot air balloon, but this resulting in him floating all the way to an oil rig in North Dakota. Luckily they were