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The Legend of Barney Thomson

6.1/ 1020151h 36m

ComedyDrama

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.

Directed by Robert Carlyle

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle

Barney

Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson

Cemolina

Ray Winstone

Ray Winstone

Holdall

Ashley Jensen

Ashley Jensen

Detective Inspector June Robertson

James Cosmo

James Cosmo

James Henderson

Tom Courtenay

Tom Courtenay

Chief Superintendent McManaman

Kevin Guthrie

Kevin Guthrie

MacPherson

Martin Compston

Martin Compston

Chris