Synopsis
Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
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Cast
- Colm MeaneyDessie Curley
- Tina KellegherSharon Curley
- Ruth McCabeKay Curley
- Eanna MacLiamCraig Curley
- Peter RowenSonny Curley
- Joanne GerrardLisa Curley
- Colm O'ByrneDarren Curley
- Ciara DuffyKimberley Curley
- Fionnuala MurphyJackie O'Keefe
- Deirdre O'BrienMary
Recommandations
- 100
Rolling Stone
This rip-roaring Irish comedy is the freshest surprise of the season. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The Snapper sees its characters with warmth and acceptance, and earns its laughs by being wise about human nature. - 80
Empire
Written by Roddy Doyle this was never going to be a depressing tale of single parenthood. Instead we watch through rose-tinted glasses as the ever watchable Colm Meaney bonds with his family over his daughter's pregnancy out of wedlock in Catholic Ireland. - 80
The New York Times
A small, joyful lark of a film. - 80
Variety
There’s plenty of unvarnished, off-the-wall Irish humor, especially in the ensemble scenes of family life and boozy barroom chat, plus real warmth beneath the rough one-liners. - 80
Washington Post
Stephen Frear's The Snapper hits the spot nicely, if your spot likes hearty rounds of working-class comedy. - 78
Austin Chronicle
There's not as much bombast here as there was in Parker's Commitments, but then Frears is an entirely different kind of director. He prefers the ensemble to the character study, and here he does a wonderful job of it. - 75
ReelViews
It's refreshing to see an old subject dealt with in the open and original manner that The Snapper handles pregnancy. The marriage of humor and drama is admittedly imperfect, but it works well enough to occasionally spawn laughter and touch the heart.
