The Snapper (film)

The Snapper is the second novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle and part of a trilogy. Released is the work of 1990.

Action

Sharon Rabbitte, eldest daughter of Jimmy Sr. and Veronica is pregnant after a boozy evening in the pub by the father of a friend. When Sharon noticed the pregnancy a few weeks later, she initially decides not to tell anyone who the father of the child.

The novel is set in the late 1980s in the working-class milieu. At this time it is in Ireland still an enormous scandal when young unmarried women expecting a child. Back and torn between sadness, pain, anger, and finally a certain joy to her child, the twenty year old Sharon lived through all the ups and downs of pregnancy often involves higher intensity ( by Roddy Doyle to the smallest detail below ). Although her parents did not let you down, Sharon is still alone. The novel has an open end. Sharon is the puerperium, for the first time holding her baby in her arms - and laughs. As her life will go remains unclear.

Filming

The novel was made ​​into a film under the same title in 1993 for television. Directed by Stephen Frears here, main characters are Tina Kellegher and Colm Meaney. In the film, the family name instead Rabitte is, however, Curley, as 20th Century Fox, the naming rights for the film The Commitments (1991, the first part of the trilogy ) had.

The concluding part made ​​fish & chips, the original title is The Van.