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.
Acting
Emma Thompson's unhinged Cemolina steals every scene she's in.
Direction
Carlyle's debut balances grotesque and genuinely touching moments.
Director
Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle
Barney
Emma Thompson
Cemolina
Ray Winstone
Holdall
Ashley Jensen
Detective Inspector June Robertson
James Cosmo
James Henderson
Tom Courtenay
Chief Superintendent McManaman
Kevin Guthrie
MacPherson
Martin Compston
Chris
Stephen McCole
Wullie
Brian Pettifer
Charlie
Eileen McCallum
Mrs. Gaffney
Barbara Rafferty
Jean Monkrieff
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