Scotland, 1950. With Scots nationalism waning under the weight of Britain's rule, four university students, led by Ian Hamilton (Charlie Cox), make a dramatic gesture to reawaken their country's pride. Despite having little money and even less experience, they cunningly break into Westminster Abbey in the wee hours of Christmas morning and "liberate" that most powerful symbol of Scotland's nationhood—The Stone of Destiny. Although they are finally captured, and the Stone taken back to London, their mission renews Scottish pride and the call for independence.
Stone Destiny was surprisingly amusing and very funny. A great flick all in all.
I really liked this movie.
Bland TV movie/Scottish Nationalist Party political broadcast. Script finds itself uncomfortably stranded between gentle Ealing comedy and OTT speechifying about oppression by the dastardly English who don't actually do much oppressing. This lack of any real tension rather scuppers the whole whole film and all that is really left is some shrill sub-Mel Gibson anglophobia. The fact that it died a quiet death at the Scottish box office tells its own story.