The Snapper (1993)
Directed by Stephen Frears
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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“The Full Monty” belongs in the recent tradition of bittersweet films from Britain that depict working- class life, movies like “ The Snapper ” and “ The Van ,” based on Roddy Doyle books; “ Raining Stones ,” about an unemployed man desperate to buy his daughter's communion dress, and the recent “ Brassed Off ,” which was also about an industry shutting down and leaving its community stranded.
At the film's helm is British-born Stephen Frears, the director of such notable productions as Dangerous Liaisons and The Snapper .
This film is a return to form for Director Stephen Frears, who showed us the darkest side of lust and power “Dangerous Liaisons” and found wry laughter in painful circumstances in “The Snapper”.
British director Stephen Frears provides the same kind of streamlined, sympathetic direction that he brought to his adaptations of the Roddy Doyle novels "The Snapper" and "The Van."
Directed by Stephen Frears ("Dangerous Liaisons," "The Snapper") with wall-to-wall wry, observational wit and fantastic attention to detail, "High Fidelity" is in many ways a mature and more accomplished extension of Cusack's teen comedies of the 1980s.