Comfort and Joy (1984)
- Directed by
- Bill Forsyth
- Genre
- comedy film, Christmas film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 63 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Glasgow radio DJ's girlfriend leaves him, throwing his life into disarray. He then stumbles into a strange dispute between rival ice cream vendors that grows increasingly absurd.
quirkygentlewryoffbeatamusingwhimsicalmildbittersweet
What happens
Comfort and Joy is a 1984 Scottish comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Bill Paterson as a radio disc jockey whose life undergoes a bizarre upheaval after his girlfriend leaves him. After he witnesses an attack on an ice cream van by angry competitors, he becomes entangled in a turf war over Glasgow's ice cream market. The film received a BAFTA Award Nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1985. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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