The Van

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 ...more

Set in 1990 before the economic resurgence of the Emerald Isle, Stephen Frears' adaptation of Roddy Doyle's novel is a richly comic take on the chaotic world of a pair of marginalized friends in a working-class Dublin neighborhood. Bimbo (Donal O'Kelley) has just been fired and Larry (Colm Meaney) is on the dole, so they decide to become entrepreneurs, refitting a decrepit van as "Bimbo's Burgers." Although compared to the previous films made from his books --The Commitments (1991) and The ...more