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.
Top Cast
Robert Carlyle as Barney
Emma Thompson as Cemolina
Ray Winstone as Holdall
Ashley Jensen as Detective Inspector June Robertson
James Cosmo as James Henderson
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