Synopsis
The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015) is a pitch-black Glasgow comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Robert Carlyle directed and stars as Barney Thomson — a timid, forgettable barber whose life of total obscurity unravels at speed the moment he accidentally kills his boss.
One mistake demands another. The body needs disappearing. Meanwhile the city's detectives, led by a tenacious Ray Winstone, are hunting an active serial killer — and the evidence keeps pointing in Barney's direction. Emma Thompson plays his mother, utterly unfazed by what her son tracks home, which turns out to be the film's most reliable source of comedy. Barney stumbles through it all in a state of paralysed incomprehension, a man whose one brush with infamy came entirely by accident.
Carlyle's direction has the right instinct for this material — deadpan, unhurried, comfortable with silence and mess. It's the kind of British dark comedy that rewards viewers who appreciate dread played completely straight. Stream The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015) online on iFILM.
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