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Plot recalls Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale


One of the Canterbury Tales has three men discovering a treasure trove and destroying one another through greed. This film often feels like an updating of that story to three Edinburgh yuppies in the late 20th century.

"Chicken soup - with a *beep* straw."

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Be interesting if Boyle and Hodge mention this on the Criterion commentary.

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