Colin Firth in a bus? Trust me, it's stranger than it sounds.
Quirky stranger Donovan (Colin Firth) blows into the Scottish village of Port Clyde. There, he rents a room with the Pannick family and ingratiates himself into their lives. Lucy (Katy Murphy) is the long-suffering matriarch of the clan, caring for her senile grandmother (Liz Smith) and mentally disabled brother, Sandy (David Brown). When the town cancels Sandy's train route to school, Donovan suggests starting their own bus line. They do, much to the consternation of local officials.
Acting
Firth's unsettling charm—never quite trustworthy, never quite wrong.
Writing
Dialogue that makes bureaucracy feel like personal vendetta.
Director
David Blair
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely on location in Scotland with a real decommissioned bus that kept breaking down.
Based on a stage play that was itself a modern retelling of Don Quixote—hence the deliberate, almost absurd nobility.
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