- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
Stephen Fry’s own company (Sprout Pictures, seasonally enough) made this amiable heist drama. Fry plays a bumbling professor of fine art who curates a Scottish bank’s repository of paintings. When the bank decides to sell them off, he vows to take revenge and ropes two pals into a devious robbery-cum-fraud.
It’s a gentle story with a romantic heart and a cast that includes Douglas Henshall, Lenora Crichlow (Being Human) and, almost stealing the show, Kenneth Collard, who produces the one big laugh.
About this programme
Bored millionaire Mike Mackenzie is a man with a broken heart and too much time on his hands. Incensed by wealthy patrons hiding works of art away in private collections, he and two close friends - a professor and a banker - devise a plot to swap priceless masterpieces stored in a gallery's warehouse with near-perfect forgeries. If successful, Mike will save the paintings and might just win back the love of his life, auctioneer Laura Stanton, who left him five years earlier. Thriller based on the book by Ian Rankin, starring Douglas Henshall, Stephen Fry, Kenneth Collard, Lenora Crichlow and Brian McCardie.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Mike Mackenzie
- Douglas Henshall
- Prof Robert Gissing
- Stephen Fry
- Allan Cruickshank
- Kenneth Collard
- Laura Stanton
- Lenora Crichlow
- Calloway
- Brian McCardie
- Bruce Cameron
- Elliot Cowan
- Hate
- Rab Affleck
- Glenno
- Paul McCole
- Jonno
- Jordan Young
- Wee Martin
- Raymond Mearns
- Westie
- Niall Greig Fulton
Crew
- Director
- Marc Evans
- Executive Producer
- Gina Carter
- Executive Producer
- Stephen Fry
- Executive Producer
- Ian Rankin
- Executive Producer
- Sandi Toksvig
- Producer
- Jon Finn
- Writer
- James Mavor
- Writer
- Sandi Toksvig
- Writer
- Mike Walden
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