The Ballad of Little Jo

• Movie

  Type

• 1993

  Year

• 2h 1m

  Runtime

• ★ 5.7

  Rating

• Romance / Drama / Western

  Genre

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?

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Cast

Suzy Amis

Josephine 'Jo' Monaghan

Bo Hopkins

Frank Badger

Ian McKellen

Percy Corcoran

David Chung

Tinman Wong

Heather Graham

Mary Addie

René Auberjonois

Streight Hollander

Carrie Snodgress

Ruth Badger

Anthony Heald

Henry Grey

Melissa Leo

Beatrice Grey

Sam Robards

Jasper Hill

Tom Bower

Lyle Hogg