Barney Thomson
Rating: 6.3/4577
Plot Summary:
Barney Thomson is a sad sack of a man. He identifies himself mostly as a barber, Hendersons Barbers in a working class neighborhood of Glasgow where he's worked for twenty years. More introspective than extroverted which does not work well for the business, he has fewer and fewer customers, and as such his current boss, Wullie Henderson, son of the retired owner James Henderson who originally hired him, is moving him further and further away from the spotlight of the shop. Meanwhile, five men so far have been killed by who the general public is nicknaming the Body Parts Killer as the murderer sends through the post body parts of the victims to the victims' loved ones. The lead investigator, DI Holdall, assisted by DI Callum MacPherson, is no closer now to discovering the Body Parts Killer's identity than when the murders started two months ago. Wanting results, Chief Superintendent McManaman takes Holdall and MacPherson off the case, instead assigning it to DI June Robertson, an …
Director: Robert Carlyle
Running time: 1h 36min
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release date: 24 July 2015 (UK)
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay, Ashley Jensen, Brian Pettifer, Kevin Guthrie, James Cosmo, Stephen McCole, Martin Compston, Samuel Robertson, Anne Downie, Ann Scott-Jones, Eileen McCallum