Now, before we get into the essentials of how you can watch 'The Van' right now, here are some finer points about the Fox Searchlight Pictures, BBC Film, Deadly Films, Beacon Pictures drama flick. The Van starring Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly, Ger Ryan, Caroline Rothwell has a R rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 40 min. The release date of the movie is May 16th, 1997. The movie received a user score of 63/100 on TMDb, which is based on reviews from 70 active users.
Need a quick rundown of the movie? Here's the plot: "In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss."
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The Barrytown Trilogy
The Barrytown Trilogy is an Irish comedy-drama media franchise centered on the Rabbittes, a working-class family from Barrytown, Dublin. It began in 1988 when Beacon Pictures and 20th Century Fox bought the rights to the 1987 novel The Commitments by Roddy Doyle shortly after it was published. The book was successful, as was Alan Parker's 1991 film adaptation. The film received cult status and is regarded as one of the best Irish films ever made. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked the film at number 38 on its list of the "100 best British films of the century", based on votes from 1,000 leading figures of the film industry. A sequel novel, The Snapper, was published in 1990, followed by a film adaptation in 1993. A third novel, The Van, was published and shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, followed by a film adaptation in 1996.
