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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   566 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Bill Forsyth (writer)
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Release Date:
10 October 1984 (USA) more
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Tagline:
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... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win more
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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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Additional Details

Runtime:
106 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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. more

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Marvelous, 30 July 2002
Author: Rick Blaine from London

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.

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