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British film

The Legend of Barney Thomson, known in the United States as Barney Thomson, is a British comedy thriller film based on the novel The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson by Douglas Lindsay.

It is the directorial debut of Robert Carlyle, who also stars in the film, alongside Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Ashley Jensen and Brian Pettifer. It was previewed at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June before its release on 24 July ^[4] The film also won the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Feature Film.

Plot

Set in Glasgow, the film centres around year-old Barney Thomson, who works at Henderson's Barbers in Bridgeton and lives a life of desperate mediocrity. Barney's uninteresting life is turned upside down when he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of a serial killer after accidentally killing his boss Wullie.

The film starts with Thomson, who lives a dull life as a Glasgow barber for 20 years, looked