In 1950, Glasgow University student Ian Hamilton (Charlie Cox), hoping to stir up Scottish nationalism, led an effort to steal the venerated titular stone from Westminster Abbey in London. Hamilton’s account of the adventure is the basis for this straightforward accounting of the event.
Writer-director Charles Martin Smith (an American-born Canadian) doesn’t attempt to depict the history of Scottish nationalism, or the reasons for it. Instead, this is simply a lightly comic rendering of an interesting footnote in the history of a movement that continues to have force today. Robert Carlyle plays the university head who inspired Hamilton.
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viewed at Prince (Philadelphia Film Festival) and reviewed 3/31/09
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