<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $7.4 million </Td> </Tr> <P> You Were Never Really Here is a 2017 psychological thriller crime drama film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay . Based on the 2013 novella of the same name by Jonathan Ames, it stars Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alex Manette, John Doman, and Judith Roberts . </P> <P> An unfinished version of the film premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in competition, where Ramsay won the Best Screenplay award and Phoenix won the award for Best Actor . The film was released by Studio Canal in the UK, on 9 March 2018, and by Amazon Studios in the U.S., where it began a limited release in Los Angeles and New York on 6 April 2018, and a wide release on 20 April . </P> <P> Joe is a traumatized hired gun who rescues trafficked girls, using brutal methods against their captors . He cares for his elderly mother in his childhood home in New York City . Joe has flashbacks to the abuse he and his mother faced from his violent father, and his brutal past in the military and FBI, and is troubled by suicidal thoughts . </P>

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