The Van (1996)
Directed by Stephen Frears
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
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What critics compared The Van to
Don’t expect the gastronomic wit of Michael Winterbottom’s two versions of The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Bryden or the whimsy of Roddy Doyle’s The Van , another food truck folly.
“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.