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- It was no place for a woman – not even the two kinds of women most familiar in Western movies, schoolmarms and hookers.
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The Ballad of Little Jo is a 1993 American Western drama film written and directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is inspired by the real-life story of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman who lived as a man in the late 19th century.
The Ballad of Little Jo: Directed by Maggie Greenwald. With Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung. After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
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- Drama, Romance, Western
- Maggie Greenwald
- 1993-08-20
Sep 10, 1993 · It was no place for a woman – not even the two kinds of women most familiar in Western movies, schoolmarms and hookers. In the opening scenes of “The Ballad of Little Jo,” a young woman is discovering this for herself.
Aug 13, 2020 · The picture is an interesting commentary on the place of women in the West and the whole concept of gender. Its central character, Josephine Monaghan (Suzy Amis), is an Eastern woman who in her youth has an illegitimate child and is expelled from her well-to-do bourgeois family as a consequence – “She and her bastard can die in the street ...
Mar 25, 2024 · “The Ballad of Little Jo” is currently streaming at Kino Film Collection and is available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber.
- Jim Hemphill
May 12, 2024 · The Ballad of Little Jo tells the true-to-life story of Josephine Monaghan (Suzy Amis), a woman of society who has been forced to leave her family and residence after she has given birth to an...
Jun 22, 2015 · We see the woman from Little Jo's point of view as she watches Mrs. Grey through a window, the frame within the frame of the image suggesting the extent to which Jo sees Mrs. Grey as having been constrained by her defining domestic role.
