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February 04, 2005: Movie: A "Scottish Suicide Comedy" set in a Scottish Bookstore
"Of the eccentrics who frequent the shop, the most appealing is a dark-haired waif named Alice (Shirley Henderson, the journalist in TV's immortal Hamish Macbeth). A single mother to wise preteen Mary (Lisa McKinlay), Alice brings in books left in the hospital where she cleans floors on the graveyard shift"
