The Legend Of Barney Thomson. Image shows from L to R: Holdall (Ray Winstone), Barney (Robert Carlyle), Cemolina (Emma Thompson)
The Legend Of Barney Thomson

The Legend Of Barney Thomson

  • 2015 film

An awkward Glaswegian barber leaves behind his mediocre life to take up serial killing. Stars Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay, Ashley Jensen and more.

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Key details

Genre
Film
Released
2015
Stars
Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay, Ashley Jensen, Martin Compston, James Cosmo, Kevin Guthrie and more
Director
Robert Carlyle

Barney is a hapless barber, devoid of charm and 'patter' as his fellow barbering brethren mockingly remind him. Barney's mediocre, mundane life of plotting for a way up is about to be transformed, following a typically incompetent fit of pique, when he inadvertently stumbles into serial murder, and with it headlong into the trail of a grotesque series of killings gripping Glasgow.

As he makes ham-fisted attempts to cover his tracks, he finds himself on the run from the bearish Detective Inspector Holdall and a testosterone-driven local Police task force at each others' throats over the ongoing crimes. With his sanity threatening to unravel, Barney fatefully turns to his domineering, emasculating mother, the formidable Glaswegian 'good-time girl', Cemolina. There's no turning back now and the path that lies ahead for Barney may yet be littered with more murderous consequences than he could have ever anticipated.

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Additional details

UK certificate
15
Duration
96 minutes
Production
Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

All previous repeats
  • Saturday 7th December 2019 at 10:00pm on BBC Scotland

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