AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

SnoopyStyle Sharon Curley (Tina Kellegher) is a 20 year old living at home with her parents and many siblings. She announces that she's pregnant but refuses to name the father. She's keeping the baby (snapper). Her father Dessie (Colm Meaney) is supportive, and defends her against town gossip about the identity of the father.This is the second of Roddy Doyle's "Barrytown Trilogy". Due to rights issue, the Rabbitte family name isn't used. It's a TV movie but it does have a cinematic feel. The acting is so great especially Meaney and Kellegher. They make the characters come alive. Their boisterous personalities come across as family relations. This is both touching and funny. It is brilliant.

MsMuinteoir What a fantastic film. I recently watched it for the first time in years and, true to form, it had me keeling over with laughter once again. "The Snapper" is Irish humour at its best. One of the best bits is surely Dessie's "I suppose a ride is out of the question?". And no, he's not asking his wife to give him a lift to the pub :) He's seeking a different kind of thrill altogether! This film provides a wonderful insight into, and reflection of, Irish humour. It abounds with sarcasm and pure Irish wit. As an Irish person born and living in Ireland, I identify with this film on many levels - although I did not grow up in a household anywhere near as eventful as the Curleys' one! Nowadays the parts where the pregnant Sharon drinks away to her heart's content may well have been left out, since so much has since been discovered about the effects alcohol can have on an unborn child. However, it goes without saying that there are women the world over drinking themselves to oblivion throughout the pregnancies! Everything about this film is realistic. Colm Meaney gives a wonderful performance and he never even seems as though he's acting! There's nothing false about "The Snapper", simply a realistic storyline where what at first seems like a tragic event is accepted and dealt with through jaw-breaking humour.

dracher We live in a world where words have become overused, "great" is used to describe breakfast and "excellent" describes the feeling of receiving an expected letter on time.In my honest opinion, "The Snapper" is a classic, in every sense of the old meaning of the word.Here is a beautifully written piece to begin with, a beautifully crafted piece to expand, and a great achievement in directing and acting out a work that is so much a classic of Dublin life and its wonderful people. This very funny and often heart wrenching film, is a work of art that belongs alongside James Joyce and a host of other great Irish artists. It goes beyond comedy or drama, in its ability to reveal the very heart and soul of human existence, and at the same time, touch ours.The Snapper is much more than an entertaining and very funny story, which it is by every inch, it is also a great classic of Dublin life, not the life of the Blooms, but of the Curleys.Regards, Dracher

Lee Eisenberg "The Snapper" may not be the sort of movie that you would usually notice, but it is definitely worth seeing. Portraying 20-year-old Dubliner Sharon Curley (Tina Kellegher) getting pregnant and refusing to identify the father, the movie makes the most of itself. Crappy flicks like "Nine Months" have dealt with pregnancy, but this one is actually interesting. Aside from the fact that it shows working-class life in Ireland, we also get to see how dad Dessie (Colm Meaney) had for so long ignored the female reproductive system - despite his wife Kay's (Ruth McCabe) many pregnancies - but now starts to take an interest in that.All in all, this is a modern masterpiece. It has something for everyone. All that I can say further is: Erin go bragh!