The Wee Man (2013) on Netflix
Bullied by the Banks brothers in Blackhill, young Paul Ferris learns to fight back. At sixteen he takes on the gang, and Arthur Thompson takes him under his wing.
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- IMDb6.1/102,874 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes20%
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Plot summary
Paul Ferris grows up in Blackhill, in Glasgow, where his father tells him to beware of strangers, stay loyal and be a lion. He sees the Banks brothers commit an armed robbery, and the gang then hounds him and kills his dog. As a teenager he is at a party that the brothers crash and wreck, and he returns with a knife and wounds two of them. He tells his sister he enjoyed the violence; she reminds him their older brother is serving life for murder. He marries Anne Marie and goes to work for Glasgow godfather Arthur Thompson, the man his father called the Devil incarnate.
Cast
- Bhrina Bacheas Air Hostess
- Hannah Blamiresas WPC
- Lewis Brandas Prison Guard
- Nick Byattas Prison Officer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Wee Man (2013)
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- Because The Wee Man portrays Scottish criminal Paul Ferris sympathetically, Strathclyde Police refused to help the filmmakers in Glasgow, his native city. The production team had to film in London instead, due to the lack of support from the legal authorities in Glasgow.
