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Comfort and Joy (1984)
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Bill Forsyth (writer)
Release Date:
10 October 1984 (USA)
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Have you ever had one of those weeks...
Plot:
Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This...
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 1 win
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bill Paterson | ... | Alan |
| Eleanor David | ... | Maddy |
| Clare Grogan | ... | Charlotte (as C. P. Grogan) |
| Alex Norton | ... | Trevor |
 | Patrick Malahide | ... | Colin |
| Rikki Fulton | ... | Hilary |
| Roberto Bernardi | ... | Mr. McCool |
 | George Rossi | ... | Bruno |
| Peter Rossi | ... | Paulo |
| Billy McElhaney | ... | Renato |
| Gilly Gilchrist | ... | Rufus |
| Caroline Guthrie | ... | Gloria |
| Ona McCracken | ... | Nancy |
| Elizabeth Sinclair | ... | Fiona |
| Katy Black | ... | Sarah |
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106 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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There was a real Ice Cream war in Glasgow in 1984, and it lead to murders within the City of Glasgow. It was suspected that it was really a drug-land turf war by ice cream vendors who used their ice cream vans as a front.
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| Is this film inspired by a true gang fued in 1984 Glasgow? | mattymatt30 |
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Anything Bill Forsyth does is worth collecting. You will like some movies more than others, but they're all gems - the antithesis of the Hollywood movie that has to come out of the screen and grab you, yank you. This is film making about people; this is a movie about the human spirit; there are elements of Fawlty Towers in here, the way certain plot elements gradually collide; viewers across the pond may feel bored, expecting something to 'happen' in the sense they are used to; but Forsyth is the best there is for the human soul.
See it - and collect it.