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Overview
The Snapper is Stephen Frears's adaptation of the second book in Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy. The Curley family is a poor but eccentric and loving Irish family. Oldest daughter Sharon Tina Kellegher announces she is pregnant, but refuses to reveal the identity of the father to anyone. Her father, Dessie Colm Meaney, is supportive, but begins to chafe at the derisive gossip aimed at his family and his daughter. This leads to a confrontation between the two that is, like the rest of the movie, simultaneously funny and sad. The family waits in the hospital as Sharon gives birth to the snapper Irish slang for an infant. The other books in the Barrytown Trilogy were also adapted into films featuring Colm Meaney as the