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Dessie and Kay are horrified when one of their six children announces that she's pregnant... Written by Roddy Doyle, author of 'The Commitments'.Product Identifiers
EAN5051561030901
eBay Product ID (ePID)77270553
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleThe Snapper
ActorColm Meaney, Ruth Mccabe, Tina Kellegher
DirectorStephen Frears
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
Release Year2009
Aspect Ratio4:3 Full Frame
GenreDrama
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Consumer AdviceContains strong language
Additional InformationTHE SNAPPER is Stephen Frears' adaptation of the second book in Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy. The Curley family is a poor but eccentric and loving Irish family. Oldest daughter Sharon (Tina Kellegher) announces she is pregnant, but refuses to reveal the identity of the father to anyone. Her father, Dessie (Colm Meaney), is supportive, but begins to chafe at the derisive gossip aimed at his family and his daughter. This leads to a confrontation between the two that is, like the rest of the movie, simultaneously funny and sad. The family waits in the hospital as Sharon gives birth to the snapper (Irish slang for an infant). The other books in the Barrytown Trilogy were also adapted into films featuring Colm Meaney as the father: THE COMMITMENTS, directed by Alan Parker, and THE VAN, directed by Stephen Frears. Doyle had a hand in the screenplay for all three.
Movie/TV TitleThe Snapper
Sound sourceDolby Digital