Overview

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