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The Snapper

Name: The Snapper
Genre: Drama,Comedy
Released: 1999
Duration: 91 min
Cast: Colm Meaney, Eanna MacLiam, Peter Rowen, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe

1999 Drama | Comedy

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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

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Director

Stephen Frears

Actors

Colm Meaney

Eanna MacLiam

Peter Rowen

Tina Kellegher

Ruth McCabe

Part of: The Barrytown Trilogy

The Barrytown Trilogy is an Irish comedy-drama media franchise centered on the Rabbittes, a working-class family from Barrytown, Dublin. It began in 1988 when Beacon Pictures and 20th Century Fox bought the rights to the 1987 novel The Commitments by Roddy Doyle shortly after it was published. The book was successful, as was Alan Parker's 1991 film adaptation. The film received cult status and is regarded as one of the best Irish films ever made. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked the film at number 38 on its list of the "100 best British films of the century", based on votes from 1,000 leading figures of the film industry. A sequel novel, The Snapper, was published in 1990, followed by a film adaptation in 1993. A third novel, The Van, was published and shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, followed by a film adaptation in 1996.

The Snapper

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Director

Stephen Frears

Actors

Colm Meaney

Eanna MacLiam

Peter Rowen

Tina Kellegher

Ruth McCabe

Part of: The Barrytown Trilogy

The Commitments

The Snapper

The Van

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