In the working-class Barrytown, Dublin, Ireland, the happy Curley family is composed by the father Dessie, his wife Kay, three sons and three daughters. When the twenty-year old Sharon discloses to her family that she is pregnant, she refuses to tell the name of the father. Soon Dessie tells the news to his friends in the pub and Sharon discloses also to her three friends in another pub. But when Dessie's friend Lester overhears the old George Burgess bragging to his friends in a pub that Sharon is a great f-word, the life of Sharon and her family changes in Barrytown and she learns that she has only one real and best friend, Jackie. And Dessie tries to become a better father and husband than never, learning how to deal with women.
Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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This is the second story in Roddy Doyle's "Barrytown Trilogy", following the adventures of the Rabbitte family. However, as 20th century Fox owned the film rights to the Rabbitte name (from The Commitments), the characters had to be re-named in the subsequent film adaptations (The Snapper, The Van).
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The hospital where the baby is born is actually a real maternity hospital called the Rotunda in the middle of Dublin.
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Pat Laffan, the actor who portrayed George Burgess, plays a character called Pat Mustard in the Irish comedy series Father Ted in 1998. Pat Mustard is a milkman who is also a ladies man and the priests notice that many of the babies born recently in the village look suspiciously like Pat Mustard!
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It was apdated in to a stage play written by Roddy Doyle himself which is close to the novel, Starring Simon Delaney, Hilda Fay & Hazel Clifford in her 1st acting debut just when she was in college at The Lir Academy in Trinity College, it ran 103 shows completely sold out to great reviews & much loved by new audiences at The Gate Theatre Dublin during 14th June -15th Sept 2018 & came back for second run 6th June -24th August 2019 The Gate Theatre is on Parnell Square in Dublin right beside The Rotunda Hospital where Sharon as her new born baby
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This was granted a cinema release in the UK after its initial TV airing.
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When Dessie (Colm Meaney) is told that his daughter seems to be going into labor, he yells, "Red alert! Red alert!" - the infamous Star Trek line referring to a heightened state of alert. Meaney starred in two incarnations of Star Trek (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine).
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When Sharon Curley goes into labour, they all pile into Jimmy's VW van to go to the maternity hospital, In the next scene we see the van travel south over Butt bridge in the center of Dublin. But the Rotunda maternity hospital in on the north side of Dublin, The same side as the Coolock home of the Curleys.
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