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From TMDb members · 2 total- r96sk7/10
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…
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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…
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Comfort and Joy
“A serious comedy”
66%
Movie
1h 46m
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Comfort and Joy (1984) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Comfort and Joy (1984) — a movie tagged as Comedy with funny moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: 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. Our models also surface themes such as identity, conflict, and relationships from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling (~106 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Comfort and Joy 66% (63 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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Synopsis
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.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1984-08-14
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- TMDB rating
- 6.6
- TMDB ID
- 30278
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Cast
Bill Paterson
Alan
Eleanor David
Maddy
Clare Grogan
Charlotte
Alex Norton
Trevor
Patrick Malahide
Colin
- R
Roberto Bernardi
Mr. McCool
Rikki Fulton
Hilary
- G
George Rossi
Bruno
- P
Peter Rossi
Paolo
- B
Billy McElhaney
Renato
Iain McColl
Archie
- B
Billy Johnstone
Amos
- G
Gilly Gilchrist
Rufus
Caroline Guthrie
Gloria
- O
Oona McCracken
Nancy
- E
Elizabeth Sinclair
Fiona
- K
Katy Black
Sarah
- R
Robin Black
Lily
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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.
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.
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