California Schemin' (15)
We saw this at an early screening and booked it for Keswick as it's a fun and engaging Scottish film, it's James McAvoy's directorial debut indeed (and he's in it too). It's a crazy and engaging true story of how sheer audacity can get you a very long way.
In this comedy drama, based on real events and set in the late 1990s, two young men from Dundee, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, had their musical ambitions consistently ridiculed for having the 'wrong' accents, so they went for broke and reinvented themselves as Californians.
The duo re-recorded their own tracks with fake accents and turned up in London claiming to be an established duo on the US music scene as well as childhood friends with Eminem. They quickly bagged themselves a record deal, a hefty sum in advances, and an appearance on MTV... until it all came crashing down.
What could possibly go wrong......?