Comfort and Joy

1984

Action / Comedy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 2636 2.6K

glasgow, scotland holiday rivalry ice cream ice cream man   ice cream truck

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Plot summary

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

Director

Bill Forsyth Photo
Bill Forsyth

Top cast

Roberto Bernardi Photo
Roberto Bernardi as Mr. McCool
Caroline Guthrie Photo
Caroline Guthrie as Gloria
Clare Grogan Photo
Clare Grogan as Charlotte
Arnold Brown Photo
Arnold Brown as Psychiatrist
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749.72 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 46 min
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1.57 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Without any help at all from "Mr. Bridger

Without any help at all from "Mr. Bridger", the Italian chip shops and ice cream vans of Glasgow are being smashed up. It's only because he takes a bit of a shine to one of the girls in the van that local radio personality "Alan" (Bill Peterson) witnesses one of the assaults and decides that he must do something to ensure peace breaks out. There really were "ice cream wars" in Glasgow so this engaging comedy has it's roots in fact as he tries to get the warring "Mr. Cool" (Robert Bernardi) and "Mr. Bunny" (Alex Norton) round the wafer table before his new soft-top BMW becomes little more than a bright red ashtray. He starts to use his radio show to convey illicit messages that just come across as gobbledegook to his station boss "Hilary" (Rikki Fulton) and soon his own career is starting to look like it might be melting too. The solution. Well anyone who's ever been to the city will know that we fry everything - even Mars bars! Patterson is on good form here, and his amiable delivery quite subtly takes an entertaining ping at the mundanity of commercial radio and it's banal advertising whilst touching on then ridiculing what was quite a serious issue at the time. Rikki Fulton has expert comedy timing and facial expressions that deliver what a thousand words never could. "Has he got a sanity clause"? Well it is the winter. Well worth a watch.
Reviewed by r96sk 7 / 10

A nice, amusing and creative premise. I enjoyed

A nice, amusing and creative premise. I enjoyed 'Comfort and Joy'. Bill Paterson heads events confidently as Alan, he's fun to watch in the lead. Patrick Malahide ('Game of Thrones', 'Luther') is in there too, while Alex Norton and Roberto Bernardi play their respective roles well. The pacing, to me at least, is a little off at around the midway point, but otherwise it's a pleasant film from 1984. Watch it if you get the opportunity.
Reviewed by Gele 8 / 10

Comedy for those of you with a sweet tooth!

A truly great comedy that was never going to take Hollywood by storm, but may well take you by surprise, with it's clever sense of humour, coupled with Bill Paterson's marvellous acting skills.

A story for those of you with a sweet tooth, about two rival ice cream companies in Glasgow, fighting over a secret recipe!

Bill Paterson plays a local DJ, he has the secret. So it's up to him to make sure that the wrong people don't get there greedy little hands on it!

A film, well worth watching, for many reasons, just keep in mind that you'll probably want to keep it, once you do! More proof that, while Hollywood will always be home to the blockbuster, we, on this side of the pond, can still make great films, from the heart, rather than the wallet!

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