Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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Cast
- Robert CarlyleBarney
- Emma ThompsonCemolina
- Ray WinstoneHoldall
- Ashley JensenDetective Inspector June Robertson
- James CosmoJames Henderson
- Tom CourtenayChief Superintendent McManaman
- Kevin GuthrieMacPherson
- Martin CompstonChris
- Stephen McColeWullie
- Brian PettiferCharlie
Crew
- Robert CarlyleDirector
- Colin McLarenWriter
- Richard CowanWriter
- Fabian WagnerDirector of Photography
- Antony GennOriginal Music Composer
- Martin SlatteryOriginal Music Composer
- Mike BanasEditor
- Brian CoffeyProducer
- Richard CowanProducer
- John G. LenicProducer
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