<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $5.6 million </Td> </Tr> <P> You Were Never Really Here is a 2017 thriller film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay, and based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Ames . The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alex Manette, John Doman, and Judith Roberts . </P> <P> An unfinished version of the film premiered at the 70th 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, a combat veteran and former FBI agent with post-traumatic stress disorder, is a hired gun who rescues trafficked girls, using brutal methods against those responsible . He cares for his elderly mother in his childhood home in New York City . Joe has graphic flashbacks to his childhood and past in the military and FBI . </P>

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