Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010)

Directed by

Ed Bye

Genre

comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man makes a 100-pound bet that he can hitchhike around the whole of Ireland while carrying a refrigerator. Along the way he meets strangers who help him and he reconsiders his life and career.

lightheartedwhimsicalupbeatquirkywarmgentleplayfulreflective

What happens

Round Ireland with a Fridge is a book by Tony Hawks, first published in the UK in 1998. It sold over half a million copies. The book is loosely based on a journey made by Hawks in 1997, when he hitchhiked around Ireland while re-evaluating his life and career. He made the trip as a result of a £100 bet with a friend, after he had seen a man in Ireland hitchhiking with a refrigerator. Publishers Weekly called the book "a bad parody of Dave Barry's travel books" but added: "In the end, Hawks's book becomes a lively celebration of contemporary Irish society and the goodwill of its people that neither revels in irony nor descends into mawkishness." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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