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I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

Bill Forsyth

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Bill Forsyth
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 29
Film Director
Screenwriter
Glasgow
Scotland
William David Forsyth
Joy
Didn
Going
Think
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Smash
Boxes
Comfort
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