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The Snapper

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United Kingdom · 1993
Rated R · 1h 31m
Director Stephen Frears
Starring Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe, Eanna MacLiam
Genre Comedy, Drama

Sharon Curley is a 20 year old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Ireland. When she discovers she is pregnant, she refuses to name the father and quickly becomes the talk of the town.

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70

Time Out by

This adaptation of Roddy Doyle's novel may not display the glitz and relentless energy of The Commitments, but it has wit, feeling and authenticity.

80

Variety by Derek Elley

There’s plenty of unvarnished, off-the-wall Irish humor, especially in the ensemble scenes of family life and boozy barroom chat, plus real warmth beneath the rough one-liners.

75

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

It's refreshing to see an old subject dealt with in the open and original manner that The Snapper handles pregnancy. The marriage of humor and drama is admittedly imperfect, but it works well enough to occasionally spawn laughter and touch the heart.

80

Empire by Kim Newman

Written by Roddy Doyle this was never going to be a depressing tale of single parenthood. Instead we watch through rose-tinted glasses as the ever watchable Colm Meaney bonds with his family over his daughter's pregnancy out of wedlock in Catholic Ireland.

78

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

There's not as much bombast here as there was in Parker's Commitments, but then Frears is an entirely different kind of director. He prefers the ensemble to the character study, and here he does a wonderful job of it.

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