A Sense Of Freedom

Beatle George Harrison got into movies with the same complete dedication he showed toward music. His firm, Hand Made Films, has been responsible for some of the more interesting pictures to come out of Britain in the 1980s, and this is no exception. Hayman plays Jimmy Boyle, a real Scottish gangster who spent years in various prisons when he wasn't out terrorizing shopkeepers. After Boyle went straight, he married a psychiatrist and, with his wife, began overseeing halfway houses for the rehabilitation of convicts. The film is a no-stance picture. McDougall's screenplay and Mackenzie's direction are presented without comment or any editorializing. It begins in the ...