THE SNAPPER
Director: Stephen Frears
Babies and the trials and tribulations involved in making and rearing them are not my cup of tea, and a snapper (Irish colloquial for ‘baby’) is the cog around which Stephen Frears’ film revolves. Novelist Roddy Doyle, recently awarded the Booker Prize for his new novel Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha, takes some characters from his script for The Commitments, and shows the turmoil that results when the eldest daughter of the family gets unwittingly pregnant.
Recriminations fly round the community and there’s no shortage of lusty vulgarity (particularly from Tina Kellegher’s mother-to-be and her two companions at the pub). Understandably Kellegher and Colm Meamy as her father dominate the film, and it’s Meamy who has the most memorable character: he’s a very different kind of man at the end of the film to the irascible da of the opening scenes. WILLIAM DART
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Rip It Up, Issue 200, 1 April 1994, Page 28
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