Comfort and Joy
A serious comedy
Overview
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.
- Production
- Lake (Comfort and Joy), Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Scottish Television (STV), Kings Road Entertainment
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Cast
Bill Paterson
Alan
Eleanor David
Maddy
Clare Grogan
Charlotte
Alex Norton
Trevor
Patrick Malahide
Colin
Rikki Fulton
Hilary
Iain McColl
Archie
Caroline Guthrie
Gloria
Ron Donachie
George
Arnold Brown
Psychiatrist
Robert Buchanan
Trevor's Workman
Douglas Sannachan
Trevor's Workman
Billy Greenlees
Trevor's Workman
David O'Hara
Engineer
Crew
- Director
- Bill Forsyth
- Writers
- Bill Forsyth
- Producers
- Davina Belling,Paddy Higson,Clive Parsons
- Cinematography
- Chris Menges
- Composer
- Mark Knopfler
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r96sk
October 18, 2020
A nice, amusing and creative premise. I enjoyed <em>'Comfort and Joy'</em>. Bill Paterson heads events confidently as Alan, he's fun to watch in the lead. Patrick Malahide (<em>'Game of Thrones'</em>, <em>'Luther'</em>) 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.
CinemaSerf
April 23, 2024
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 "…