- Title: Comfort and Joy
- Original Title: Comfort and Joy
- Release Date: 14/08/1984
- Tagline: A serious comedy
- Duration:106 Min / 01:46
- Country:GB
- Genre:Comedy
About Film
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Movie Rating: 6.54
Total Votes: 58
Reviews

r96sk
7/10
A nice, amusing and creative premise.
I enjoyed 'Comfort and Joy'. Bill Paterson heads events confidently as Alan, he's fun to watch in the lead. Patrick Malahide ('Game of Thrones', 'Luther') is in there too, while Alex Norton and Roberto Bernardi play their respective roles well.
The pacing, to me at least, is...

Geronimo1967
7/10
Without any help at all from "Mr. Bridger", the Italian chip shops and ice cream vans of Glasgow are being smashed up. It's only because he takes a bit of a shine to one of the girls in the van that local radio personality "Alan" (Bill Peterson) witnesses one of the assaults and decides that he must do something to ensure peace breaks out. There...