The Angels' Share (2012)

Directed by

Ken Loach

Genre

drama film, comedy film, heist film, crime film

Country

United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 626 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young father in Glasgow gets a second chance after nearly going to prison. He and his friends from a community payback group discover a valuable whisky and try to change their lives.

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What happens

The Angels' Share is a 2012 comedy-drama film directed by Ken Loach and starring Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, and William Ruane. Set in Glasgow, Scotland, it tells the story of a young father who narrowly avoids a prison sentence. He is determined to turn over a new leaf and when he and his friends from the same community payback group visit a whisky distillery, a route to a new life becomes apparent. The title is from "the angels' share", a term for the portion (share) of a whisky's volume that is lost to evaporation during aging in oak barrels. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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