Comfort and Joy ( Comfort & Joy )

Comfort and Joy (DVD) (*)

$23.99

Alternate Title: Comfort & Joy
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1984 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Bill Forsyth

Written By:
Bill Forsyth

Actors:
Bill Paterson ..... Alan
Eleanor David ..... Maddy
Clare Grogan ..... Charlotte
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

Synopsis:

Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the Rossis, over whose ice cream vans can sell where in Glasgow.

Writer/director Bill Forsyth's follow-up to his best film, Local Hero, is another comic exploration of a man undergoing a personal crisis. In Local Hero, the American played by Peter Riegert finds himself enchanted by the people and ambience of a Scottish village he has been dispatched to purchase for an oil company. In Comfort and Joy, Alan (Bill Paterson) is a Glasgow radio disc jockey whose air name is the chirpy Dickey Bird. After Maddy, his girlfriend (Eleanor David), walks out on him at Christmas, he's spurred to re-evaluate his life. Looking for more meaningful work than spinning pop tunes and offering inane chatter to his geriatric listeners, Alan decides to make a radio documentary. He chances upon a local rivalry between two ice cream companies, who are sabotaging each other's trucks in an effort to monopolize the market. Attracted to Charlotte (C.P. Grogan), the daughter of one of the company owners, Alan finds himself playing peacemaker rather than documentarian. That this cold war takes place in the dead of a bitter Scottish winter is only one of Forsyth's many sly touches.

A Glasgow disc jockey becomes entangled in a war between rival mobs for control of the ice cream trade.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 13 December, 2007.

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