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
as Barney
Emma Thompson
as Cemolina
Ray Winstone
as Holdall
Ashley Jensen
as Detective Inspector June Robertson
James Cosmo
as James Henderson
Tom Courtenay
as Chief Superintendent McManaman
Kevin Guthrie
as MacPherson
Martin Compston
as Chris
Stephen McCole
as Wullie
Samuel Robertson
as Detective Sergeant Sam Jobson
Brian Pettifer
as Charlie
Paul Ellard
as Bingo caller
