Schemers

[Available March 29 on various VOD platforms.] Difficult to understand dialogue hinders Dave McLean's award-winning, factually based, one-dimensional, uninspired, predictable, intermittently funny, shoestring budget, self-indulgent, 91-minute, 2019 film that has a wonderful soundtrack in which a hustling, ambitious, gambling-addicted, silver-tongued, Scottish factory employee (Conor Berry), who has become smitten with a blonde student nurse (Tara Lee), works with two longtime friends (Sean Connor and Grant Robert Keelan) in the 1980s in Dundee, Scotland, to promote punk rock bands at local establishments and then gets into trouble with a gangster (Alastair Thomson Mills) who controls all the music venues and must figure a way out.
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