The Van (1996)

Genres:

Comedy

Languages:

English

Reviews:

3 reviews

Released:

12 March 2007

Format:

DVD

Staring

Director

Stephen Frears

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Aidan from Dublin, 12 Dec 2008

It might be the weakest of the Roddy Doyle based films but it has some amount of classic lines all the same. Its like a time capsule for Ireland around 1990. Colm Meaney is such a good comic actor.

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The Van

Wendy from Wexford, 19 Jan 2009

Roddy Doyle is a legend! Love this movie!

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The Van

paul from Louth, 09 Jul 2009

Enjoyable has its funny moments

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What's it about....

This is the third film adapted from a fictional trilogy by Irish writer Roddy Doyle about families living in a working-class Dublin neighborhood. The first was director Alan Parker's smashing music mockumentary The Commitments and the second was the hilarious comedy The Snapper, directed by Stephen Frears. Frears also directs this film, which is about two unemployed buddies who convert a dilapidated van into Bimbo's Burgers, a mobile fast-food joint selling fish and chips...

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