Plot
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.
Cast
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
Paul Ellard
Bingo caller
Scott Dymond
Customer Number 1
Crew
Richard Cowan
Writer
Robert Carlyle
Director
Colin McLaren
Writer
Brian Coffey
Producer
Richard Cowan
Producer
John G. Lenic
Producer
Fabian Wagner
Director of Photography
Kaleena Kiff
Producer
Antony Genn
Original Music Composer
Martin Slattery
Original Music Composer
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