# The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)

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**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama
**Directed by**: Robert Carlyle
**Written by**: Colin McLaren, Richard Cowan
**Starring**: Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Ashley Jensen, James Cosmo, Tom Courtenay

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A barber’s quiet life of mediocrity gets grotesquely interrupted by murder. His fate accelerates when Glasgow’s most absurd serial killer enters the frame. At least the razors are sharp.

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