Based on a true story, this fun film from
director Charles Martin Smith (Air Bud) follows the adventures of a young
Scottish university student named Ian Hamilton (Charlie Cox) who decides to
strike a blow for national pride by traveling to London to steal the Stone of
Scone, The Coronation Stone, and bring it back to Scotland. He gets together a
few friends, hatches a harebrained scheme and, to everybody’s surprise,
succeeds. But taking a national treasure and staying out of jail long enough to
bask in the glory are two different stories, as Hamilton quickly finds out.
Although it probably mean more to
Scottish people than anyone else, there’s an infectious merriment to the caper
that is hard to resist. Cox is charming as the young man with a desperate need
to do something special with his life, and Kate Mara is the perfect foil,
romantically and otherwise, for him to work with.
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