Comfort and Joy

1984

Action / Comedy

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 82% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 2561 2.6K

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

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

Caroline Guthrie Photo
Caroline Guthrie as Gloria
Ron Donachie Photo
Ron Donachie as George
Roberto Bernardi Photo
Roberto Bernardi as Mr. McCool
Alan Tall Photo
Alan Tall as Trevor's Workman
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749.72 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 2
1.57 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

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!
Reviewed by SteveSkafte 10 / 10

I was raspberry when I should have been vanilla.

"Comfort and Joy" is a deceptive film. It begins as a story about those dim, lonely days following a break-up, and turns into a fantastical tale of the dark underworld behind ice cream vendor territorial disputes (!). Yeah, that's what I thought too. How could this work, and who writes this stuff? Bill Forsyth was an exceedingly strange filmmaker. He made movies often thinly disguised as comedy, but with a heart of deep alienation and loneliness. This film, in fact, could almost be a distorted mirror of more nihilistic loner films like "Taxi Driver".There are passages in "Comfort and Joy" which are utterly dreamlike. The cinematography takes over in nighttime scenes, all deep focus and glowing orbs of unfocused light. Chris Menges photographs his images with a wonderfully real sense. It's this feeling which makes the film true bordering on painful. Bill Paterson (as Alan Bird) enters into this world like someone who'd been sleepwalking. He's subtle, silent, often bemused. He's like a lesson on how to create a character, in the purest sense.I must say that "Comfort and Joy" is a very specific sort of film. And a very good one, I think. But there's a large portion which depends directly on mood. It's very possible to not enjoy it. But it is real, and that in itself is a wondrous achievement.
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