Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 12/18/2001
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDS
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse
Distributor/Studio: Miramax
The 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.
~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
;)
