The Legend of Barney Thomson

Release date: 2015-07-24
Votes: 201
Genres: Comedy, Drama
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.
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