Comfort and Joy
<b>Book tickets for two or more of our <a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/hogmanay/">Hogmanay</a> films to receive a discount! Tickets can also be bought separately.</b> Following his girlfriend leaving him, radio host and local celebrity Alan 'Dickie' Bird's life is sent into upheaval. Witnessing an ice cream van targeted and destroyed by irate competitors, Bird is drawn into a fierce struggle between a pair of Italian families over Glasgow's ice cream market. <i>Local Hero</i> and <i>Gregory's Girl</i> director Bill Forsyth was inspired to make <i>Comfort and Joy</i> in equal parts by the new phenomenon of local radio DJs, and Peter Capaldi telling him the story of Glasgow's Ice Cream Wars. Of course, these wars weren't necessarily <i>only</i> about ice cream, but Capaldi told the tale as if it was, being from an ice cream family himself, leading to the genesis of this delightful Scottish Christmas slice of life.ComedyPT1H46MPG2025-12-30Bill Paterson
Eleanor David
Clare Grogan
Bill Forsyth
Davina Belling
Clive Parsons
Paddy Higson
Comfort and Joy"Comfort and Joy"Showtimes
December 30, 3:45 pm
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