Brendan "Bimbo" Reeves gets laid off from his job as a baker in Barrytown, a working-class quarter of Dublin.

With his redundancy cheque, he buys a van and sells fish and chips with his best mate, Larry.

Due, in part, to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well.

Filming took place in the North Dublin suburb of Kilbarrack, and at Ardmore Studios, Bray, Co. Wicklow.

[4] It opened in the UK on 29 November 1996 on 94 screens and finished in sixth place for the weekend with a gross of £204,447.