{"id":70,"date":"2006-03-10T19:13:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T02:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=70"},"modified":"2022-09-05T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:59:37","slug":"comfort-and-joy-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Comfort and Joy (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Ice cream is not something that many of us give a great deal of thought to.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Poster-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Poster-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Poster.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nRadio deejay Alan &#8220;Dickey&#8221; Bird (Bill Patterson) is dumped by his girlfriend Maddy (Eleanor David) on Christmas.  While wandering around Glasgow, he witnesses an ice cream truck being vandalized, and soon becomes the middleman in a feud between two rival ice cream companies.  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Feuds<\/li>\n<li>Radio<\/li>\n<li>Scottish Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough Peary refers to this film by famed Scottish director Bill Forsyth as a &#8220;charming, relaxing, offbeat comedy&#8221;, I wasn&#8217;t nearly so taken with it.  It&#8217;s clever and quirky, but loses steam about halfway through; indeed, the subplots (concerning Alan&#8217;s radio job and his ex-girlfriend) are much more interesting than the ice cream imbroglio itself. Forsyth made other, superior films &#8212; including <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=86488\"><em>Local Hero<\/em> (1983)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=86402\"><em>Gregory&#8217;s Girl<\/em> (1980)<\/a>, and <em>That Sinking Feeling<\/em> (1979) &#8212; which are better candidates for must-see viewing. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The opening scene, where Alan follows his girlfriend Maddy as she shoplifts in a department store<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Shoplifting.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Shoplifting-1024x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Shoplifting-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Shoplifting-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Shoplifting-128x67.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Shoplifting-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Shoplifting-1536x800.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Shoplifting.png 1915w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Maddy casually taking her belongings off the shelves of their apartment as she discusses why she&#8217;s moving out<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Maddy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Maddy-1024x535.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Maddy-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Maddy-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Maddy-128x67.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Maddy-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Maddy-1536x802.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Comfort-and-Joy-Maddy.png 1897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo.  It&#8217;s one of Forsyth&#8217;s lesser films, and not required viewing unless you&#8217;re a fan of his work. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0087072\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/10\/10\/movies\/film-comfort-and-joy-comedy-from-scotland.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ice cream is not something that many of us give a great deal of thought to.&#8221; Synopsis: Radio deejay Alan &#8220;Dickey&#8221; Bird (Bill Patterson) is dumped by his girlfriend Maddy (Eleanor David) on Christmas. While wandering around Glasgow, he witnesses an ice cream truck being vandalized, and soon becomes the middleman in a feud between two rival ice cream companies. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Comedy Feuds Radio Scottish Films Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Although Peary refers to this film&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=70\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86863,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/86863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}