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The Snapper is a 1993 Irish television film directed by Stephen Frears[2] and starred Tina Kellegher, Colm Meaney and Brendan Gleeson. The film is based on the novel[3] by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, about the Curley family and their domestic adventures. For his performance, Meaney was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

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The Snapper
Directed by	Stephen Frears
Written by	Roddy Doyle
Screenplay by	Roddy Doyle
Produced by	Lynda Myles Ian Hopkins (associate producer)
Starring	Colm Meaney Tina Kellegher Ruth McCabe
Cinematography	Oliver Stapleton
Edited by	Mick Audsley
Music by	Stanley Myers
Production company	BBC Films
Distributed by	Electric Pictures[1]
Release date	April 4, 1993 (1993-04-04)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Ireland
Language	Hiberno-English
Box office	$4 million (UK/US)

Plot

Soon after a wild night at the pub, twenty-year-old Sharon Curley finds herself expecting a little "snapper" by a man she loathes.[4] Her refusal to name the father sets in motion a family drama involving her three brothers, two sisters, and her parents, along with her employers and all her friends. Kellegher, playing the role as a coarse, earthy, yet remarkably sensible young woman soon discovers who her friends really are, as some people tease and torment her, some make remarks to her siblings, some force her father to take direct action in her defence, and all spread gossip. She decides to keep the baby ("snapper") and her family, each in their own way, eventually decides to support her. Her father particularly studies up on childbirth and female anatomy (with gratifying results for his wife as a bonus).

Des Curley,[5] Sharon's father, shows the whole world in his face, his emotions ranging from outrage toward Sharon for embarrassing the family to tender concern as her time draws near. As the eight-member family trips all over each other emotionally (symbolised in their battles for the one bathroom, often occupied by Sharon), the tensions within the family grow more intense. Widespread speculation about who the father disrupts the neighbourhood, with some hotheads visiting their own brand of justice on the Curleys. The arrival of the baby offers a chance at resolution.

It turns out that Sharon's friend's father, Georgie Burgess, got her pregnant after he had sex with a severely inebriated Sharon in a car park. It is suggested that this encounter was nonconsensual. As an inebriated person cannot consent to sex, it was in fact nonconsensual. Her story is that it was a Spanish sailor, but the whole town suspects the truth that it is Burgess as he writes a letter to his wife apologising for getting a young girl pregnant.

Cast

Production

The surname of the Rabbitte family in the book had to be changed to Curley as 20th Century Fox owns the rights to the Rabbitte name from The Commitments (1991), which featured the same characters. The film was shot in many familiar locations around Dublin including Raheny, Kilbarrack, Ballybough, Dún Laoghaire & The Old Shieling Hotel.

Reception

The film grossed £474,206 in the United Kingdom.[6] In the United States and Canada, the film grossed $3.3 million.[7]

Year-end lists

• 4th – Douglas Armstrong, The Milwaukee Journal[8]
• Top 7 (not ranked) – Duane Dudek, Milwaukee Sentinel[9]
• Top 10 (not ranked) – Dennis King, Tulsa World[10]

External links

• The Snapper at IMDb
• The Snapper at Box Office Mojo
• The Snapper at Rotten Tomatoes

References

На других языках

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- [en] The Snapper (film)

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[ru] Шустрая (фильм, 1993, Великобритания)

«Шустрая» (англ. The Snapper) — ирландская телевизионная комедия 1993 года. Экранизация одноимённого романа ирландского писателя Родди Дойла, который также написал сценарий для фильма. В этом фильме фамилия семьи была изменена с Рэббитт на Кёрли, поскольку право на использование этой фамилии принадлежало компании 20th Century Fox, которая в 1991 году выпустила фильм «Группа „Коммитментс“» по другому роману Дойла и с теми же персонажами.

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