Desc: The Legend of Barney Thomson: Directed by Robert Carlyle. With Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay. Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle), awkward, diffident, Glasgow, Scotland 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.