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Comfort and Joy
Director Bill Forsyth followed the enormously successful Local Hero with this bittersweet comedy about a radio DJ who becomes embroiled in a turf war between rival ice cream vendors.
Comedy 1984 104 mins
Director: Bill Forsyth
Overview
Alan ‘Dicky’ Bird (Bill Paterson) is a radio DJ who, despite his semi-glamorous job, is moping over the recent departure of his girlfriend and longs for a new direction. After following an attractive ice cream vendor, Charlotte (Clare Grogan), he becomes unwittingly embroiled in a turf war between two rival ice cream businesses, both gunning for the same Glasgow patch. Using his status as a local celebrity Bird acts as mediator between the two factions, hoping to win Charlotte’s heart.
Comfort and Joy was writer-director Bill Forsyth’s follow-up to the enormously successful Local Hero, and the film successfully continues the bittersweet comic formula, enhanced by Chris Menges’ picturesque photography and music by Mark Knopfler.
Contains mild language, sex references and violenceRelated
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