Charlie Cox,
Kate Mara,
Robert Carlyle,
Billy Boyd,
Stephen McCole
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Prolific actor/director Charles Martin Smith takes the helm for this lighthearted adventure comedy recounting the theft of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey. Based on the memoirs of Ian Hamilt... read more
DVD Release Date: June 30, 2009
Stats: 253 reviews
A fun, inspiring, and deeeelightful Scottish tale based on true events. The cast and characters are strong, scenery beautiful, and the score a perfect match. Just a fun, witty little film.
Cast: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Stephen McCole, Ciaran Kelly, Billy Boyd, Robert Carlyle, Peter Mullan, Brenda Fricker, Rab Affleck, Gillian Aitken, Janine Ballantyne, Ross Bennie
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Summary: Based on true events of 1950, this comic adventure fol... read more
Some lovely shots of my neighbourhood in Glasgow at the start of the movie, which were then confusingly reused as London scenes later on. Otherwise a very average movie.
This film started slowly for me, but soon pulled me in with its sly wit and compelling feel-good story of a small group of Scottish college students who decided to attempt to bring a Scottish symbol of independence back home. Credit the performance of Kate Mara to turn this highl... read more
A very funny and uplifting movie about five young people who plot to recapture the Stone of Destiny from the abbey in London in an attempt to ignite patriotism for Scotland. Some real sweet scenes and some that are laugh out loud.
Based on the incredible true story of four Scottish youths who break-in to Westminster Abbey and reclaim an ancient relic for their country.
The cast in great and the mixture of comedy and heist movies is very well balanced and makes for a unique film that is both heartwarming a... read more
Go into this movie not knowing what it is about. Thats what I did and I came out quite supprised. The story is such a fun caper style true story that I hadnt heard of until this movie. Besides all the in your face patriotism it is an enjoyable movie which keeps you watching.
A keen but artificial effort; a modest success nevertheless. The Scotland vs. England angle is fresh and spirited -- I'm ignorant of the real politics, but artistically it's a great background. Oddly, the film seems to sanctify recklessness in thematic support of something that's... read more
True Story, Good Movie!
Message: In Life, to do the Impossible, you need a bit Planning, whole lot of Courage, & a bit of Craziness!
they showed this on United on my flight from Chicago to LA. It's a Scottish pride film, meaning it was pathetic but cute in a Scottish way. it made me want to listen to The Jesus and Mary Chain.
This unabashedly sentimental and outright anti-English pic is stodgy as a cheap haggis with nationalistic sentimentality. Full Review
Smith, who also wrote the screenplay, is all brisk efficiency over the course of the movie's fat-free 96 minutes. Full Review
Written and directed by an American, the film nevertheless feels closer to the 'British' spirit of the old Ealing comedies, something emphasised by its old-fashioned ambience and its charming evocatio... Full Review
A woeful slice of sentimental whimsy that makes Braveheart look like a documentary. Full Review
As a film, it's a touch too Hollywood, and full of too much patriotic Braveheart guff, but, on the whole, the American director and writer, Charles Martin Smith, has created an amiable and watchable h... Full Review
Writer/director Charles Martin Smith is American, which wouldn't matter if this didn't feel so much like a wee-dram-and-bagpipes invitation to a mythical Scotland of yesteryear. Full Review
Those whose national football and cricket teams are led by an Italian and a South African respectively have little room to talk, but surely Scotland has enough homegrown filmmaking talent to stick it ... Full Review
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