Fresh
Writer/director Charles Martin Smith brings energy and wit to this British-Canadian co-production.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Stone of Destiny
2008 · 1h 36m · PG
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Directed by
Charles Martin Smith
Overview
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.
Director and cast
- Charles Martin Smith Director
- Robert Carlyle as John MacCormick
- Peter Mullan as Ian's dad
- Billy Boyd as Bill Craig
- Charlie Cox as Ian Hamilton
- Kate Mara as Kay Matheson
- Stephen McCole as Gavin Vernon
- Ciaron Kelly as Alan Stuart
- Brenda Fricker as Mrs. McQuarry
- Juliet Cadzow as Ian’s Mother
- Ron Donachie Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
53%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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 evocation of the period.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
This unabashedly sentimental and outright anti-English pic is stodgy as a cheap haggis with nationalistic sentimentality.
Leslie Felperin, Variety
Fresh
Smith, who also wrote the screenplay, is all brisk efficiency over the course of the movie's fat-free 96 minutes.
James Adams, Globe and Mail
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