What Joe needs is a friend. What Jim needs is a fresh start. Living in a former pit village in the North of England Joe's learning difficulties have left him isolated his only contact with the community playing the back-end of the horse in the local panto. Until Jim another of life's outsiders for a whole different set of reasons comes home. So begins an unlikely friendship. Jim & Joe offer one another loyalty & camaraderie simple but magnificent qualities that give Jim that most elusive thing
- hope
- as he rebuilds his life. But when rumours of an unthinkable crime get out of control Jim's loyalty is put to the test with heartbreaking consequences. Funny bittersweet & unforgettable Magnificent Joe is a tale of devastation loss & the redemptive power of one extraordinary friendship.