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Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Ratings
IMDb5.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes42%
Metacritic42/100
Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do.
54 audience votes
Key crew
- Gillies MacKinnonDirector
- Peter McDougallWriter
- Patrick DoyleOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Gregor FisherMacroon
- Suzy Eddie IzzardCaptain Wagget
- Naomi BattrickPeggy Macroon
- Ellie KendrickCatriona Macroon
- Sean BiggerstaffSergeant Odd
- Kevin GuthrieGeorge Campbell
- James CosmoMacalister the Minister
- Fenella WoolgarDolly Waggett
- Michael NardoneBrown
- John SessionsDoctor McLaren
- Brian PettiferAngus
- Iain RobertsonSammy