A film manufactured it on the listings of Roger Ebert's most hated films.

A film revolves around white trash heavy-metal fan Joe Dirt (Spade) who is found by the disc jockey Zander Kelly (Miller) at the radio-station in which he works as a janitor, and is encouraged to recount his life-story. This involves existence abandoned by his parents at a Grand Canyon when he was 7, & with searched for the babies ever since.

Dirt's stories include existence natural while forgoing the top of his skull, sequent within his mother covering it sustaining a mullet wig which he had saved ever since; befriending the meteor (which turns out to become a piece of jettisoned body waste); working at the carnival; working as an alligator baiter; befriending a unknown janitor known as Clem (later Gert B. Frobe) on a witness re-location programme (Walken); and being held captive by serial killer 'Buffalo Bob' in a scene similar to The Silence of the Lambs.

Dirt too meets Brandy (Daniel) world health organization adores him, however Dirt is oblivious of this, believing she would exist as better suited to Robby (Kid Rock).

A film is uncommon for Spade when he doesn't himself play his usual remorseless, sarcastic character. This role is instead given to Miller, when Spade plays a supplementary likable role of Dirt.

A film was by Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison.