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The Van
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Director:
Writers:
Roddy Doyle (novel)
Roddy Doyle (screenplay)
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Release Date:
16 May 1997 (USA) more
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A large portion of life... more
Plot:
The third installment of Irish author Roddy Doyle's 'Barrytown Trilogy' depicts the hilarious yet poignant adventures of Bimbo... more | add synopsis
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Scores That Pop from Composers of Pop
 (From IFC. 7 April 2009, 9:02 AM, PDT)

Van Gogh Doc to Film in Portlaoise
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Colm Meaney ... Larry
Donal O'Kelly ... Bimbo

Ger Ryan ... Maggie
Caroline Rothwell ... Mary
Neilí Conroy ... Diane
Rúaidhrí Conroy ... Kevin
Brendan O'Carroll ... Weslie
Stuart Dunne ... Sam
Jack Lynch ... Cancer
Laurie Morton ... Maggie's Mum
Marie Mullen ... Vera
Jon Kenny ... Gerry McCarthy
Moses Rowen ... Glenn
Linda McGovern ... Jessica
Eoin Chaney ... Wayne
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong language.
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100 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Trivia:
This is the third story in Roddy Doyle's "Barrytown Trilogy", following the adventures of the Rabbitte family. However, as 20th Century Fox owned the film rights to the Rabbitte name (from The Commitments), the characters had to be re-named in the subsequent film adaptations (The Snapper, The Van). more
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Anachronisms: The movie is set during World Cup 1990, and on at least two occasions, the radio can be heard promoting 98FM. This station did not use this branding until the mid 1990s; it was called Classic Hits at the time. more
Quotes:
Bimbo: Got a bit of bad news today. Knocked me back a bit. I was let go.
Larry: What?
Bimbo: Made redundant.
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Movie Connections:
Follows The Commitments (1991) more
Soundtrack:
Living Next Door to Alice more

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3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Van vandalized, 25 August 2004
Author: (derekparry696@hotmail.com) from High Wycombe, England

"The Van" is one of very few novels that have made me laugh out loud, on numerous occasions, whilst reading it. Thus, I feared the movie couldn't possibly live up to the book and I was right.

The characters appear nowhere near as appealing as they do in the book -even the lead characters name has changed from Jimmy to Larry. In fact the Rabbite family has been drastically culled. The dialect can be difficult to catch at times (my wife mistook "World Peace" for "Wolf's p**s" during one pun). The "Living Dead" appear from nowhere and........no, I'm not doing any more comparisons.

If you want a good laugh read the book.

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