The Legend of Barney Thomson

About The Legend of Barney Thomson

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.

Robert Carlyle's The Legend of Barney Thomson is a 2015 comedy film. Its themes are accidental killing, serial killer, and dark comedy.

Robert Carlyle appears as Barney, Emma Thompson as Cemolina, Ray Winstone as Holdall, and Ashley Jensen as Detective Inspector June Robertson. It runs 96 minutes and was released in July 2015.

The screenplay is by Colin McLaren and Richard Cowan. The film began as a novel.

American Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory make useful companions to The Legend of Barney Thomson. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 213 votes.