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
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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