Killer Joe

About Killer Joe

A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.

William Friedkin's Killer Joe is a 2012 crime thriller film. Matthew McConaughey appears as Killer Joe Cooper, Emile Hirsch as Chris Smith, Juno Temple as Dottie Smith, and Thomas Haden Church as Ansel Smith.

Released in June 2012, it runs 102 minutes. Written by Tracy Letts.

Shelv files it under texas, money, gun, and police detective. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV. It scores 6.5 out of 10 from 1,639 TMDB voters and it carries a NC-17 rating.

No Country for Old Men, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), and Sicario make useful companions to Killer Joe, all filed under neo-noir and psychopath.