

Comfort and Joy
A serious comedy
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
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- Released
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- Language
- Italian
- glasgow, scotland
- holiday
- rivalry
- ice cream
- ice cream man
- ice cream truck
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalR10 Oct 1984
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG14 Aug 1984
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG9 Nov 1984
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Comfort and Joy was released on 14 August 1984.
Audience reviews
2- R7/10
r96sk
10/18/2020
A nice, amusing and creative premise. I enjoyed <em>'Comfort and Joy'</em>. Bill Paterson heads events confidently as Alan, he's fun to watch in the lead. Patrick Malahide (<em>'Game of Thrones'</em>, <em>'Luther'</em>) is in there too, while Alex Norton and Roberto Bernardi play their respective roles well. The pacing, to me at least, is a little off at around the midway point, but otherwise it's a pleasant fi…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
4/23/2024
Without any help at all from "Mr. Bridger", the Italian chip shops and ice cream vans of Glasgow are being smashed up. It's only because he takes a bit of a shine to one of the girls in the van that local radio personality "Alan" (Bill Peterson) witnesses one of the assaults and decides that he must do something to ensure peace breaks out. There really were "ice cream wars" in Glasgow so this engaging comedy has it's…
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