Stone of Destiny (2008)
Stone of Destiny is a 2008 British-Canadian adventure/comedy film written and directed by Charles Martin Smith and starring Charlie Cox, Billy Boyd, Robert Carlyle, and Kate Mara. Based on real events, the film tells the story of the theft of the Stone of Scone on Christmas Day, 1950. The stone, supposedly the Stone of Jacob over which Scottish Kings were traditionally crowned at Scone in Perthshire, was stolen by King Edward I of England in 1296 and placed under the throne at Westminster Abbey in London. In 1950, a group of student Scottish nationalists succeeded in removing it from Westminster Abbey and returning it to Scotland where it was placed symbolically at Arbroath Abbey, the site of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath and an important site in the Scottish nationalist cause.
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Cast:
- Richard Addison
- Rab Affleck
- Billy Boyd
- Juliet Cadzow
- Stewart Cairns
- Robert Carlyle
- Stephen Clyde
- John Comerford
- Charlie Cox
- Suzanne Dance
- Ron Donachie
- Alex Donald
- Brenda Fricker
- Ian Hamilton
- Bernard Horsfall
- Ciaron Kelly
- Pauline King
- Bryan Lowe
- Kate Mara
- Stephen McCole
- Johnny Meres
- Peter Mullan
- Margaret Newlands
- Stewart Porter
- Danielle Stewart