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Director
Stephen Frears
Credits
Producer: Lynda Myles. Writer: Roddy Doyle
Principal Cast
Colm Meaney, Ger Ryan, Donal O'Kelly
Category
FeatureLiterature
Following on from The Commitments and The Snapper, The Van is the third instalment of ‘The Barrytown Trilogy’ and offers another look into the tragi-comic, working class lives of Barrytown’s residents. Here it is unemployed middle-aged men Larry (Colm Meaney) and Bimbo (Donal O’Kelly) who take centre stage, as they start up a ramshackle business selling fast food from a broken down van. As a result of an oversight by Bimbo’s wife Maggy (Ger Ryan) the two men enjoy sudden and unexpected success, only to find the pressures of running the business driving a wedge between their friendship. Ireland’s 1990 World Cup campaign – a sporting event that has assumed mythic significance in Irish culture – forms the crucial backdrop to this down-to-earth story of ordinary people trying to improve their lot in life.
100 minutes, Ireland/UK/USA, 1996, Colour
AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY) 15.45
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER 13.25
HOKUM 11.05, 18.15
ONCE UPON A TIME IN A CINEMA 20.10
PRIMAVERA 11.00, 20.35
ROSE OF NEVADA 20.20
THE STRANGER 13.05
THIS MORTAL COIL: ANXIETY + DEATH & TRANSFIGURATION 15.40
TRAD 13.20, 18.20
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