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Filth
Filth
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jon S. Baird
Screenplay by	Jon S. Baird
Based on	Filth; by Irvine Welsh
Produced by	Ken Marshall; Jon S. Baird; Trudie Styler; Jens Meurer; Christian Angermayer; Celine Rattray; Mark Amin; Stephen Mao; Steven Istock; Will Clarke; James McAvoy;
Starring	James McAvoy; Jamie Bell; Joanne Froggatt; Imogen Poots; Eddie Marsan; Jim Broadbent;
Cinematography	Matthew Jensen
Edited by	Mark Eckersley
Music by	Clint Mansell
Production; companies	Maven Pictures; Logie Pictures; Steel Mill Pictures; Creative Scotland; Film i Väst; Studio Mao; Altitude Film Entertainment;
Distributed by	Lionsgate (United Kingdom); Ascot Elite (Germany); Noble Entertainment (Sweden);
Release dates	16 September 2013 (Old Town Taito International; Comedy Film Festival); 27 September 2013 (Scotland);
Running time	97 minutes
Countries	Belgium; United Kingdom; Germany; Sweden;
Language	English
Box office	$9.1 million

Filth is a 2013 psychological black comedy crime thriller film written and directed by Jon S. Baird, based on Irvine Welsh's 1998 novel Filth. The film was released on 27 September 2013 in Scotland, 4 October 2013 elsewhere in the United Kingdom and in Ireland, and on 30 May 2014 in the United States.^[6] It stars James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, and Jim Broadbent.

Filth marked the final film role of David Soul, in a cameo role.

Set in Edinburgh, the film follows misanthropic Detective Sergeant investigating a murder case, beset with mental health problems following the end of his marriage. He suffers from borderline personality disorder, feelings of guilt over the death of his brother, a newfound need to cross-dress as his wife, and (eventually) suicidal ideation.

Plot

Edinburgh Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, a scheming, manipulative, misanthropic bully, spends his free time indulging in drugs, alcohol, abusive sexual relationships, and "the games" – his euphemism for vindictive plots he hatches to cause trouble for people he dislikes, including many of his colleagues in the Lothian and Borders Police.

Bruce also delights in bullying and taking advantage of his mild-mannered friend Clifford Blades, a member of Bruce's masonic lodge, whose wife, Bunty, is the target of his repeated obscene phone calls. He only shows genuine warmth to Mary and her young son, the widowed wife and child of a man whom he tries and fails to resuscitate after he suffers a heart attack in the street.

As the story begins, Bruce's main goal is to gain a promotion to become Detective Inspector (DI), the path to which appears to open when he is assigned to oversee the investigation into the murder of a Japanese exchange student. However, Bruce slowly loses his grip on reality as he works the case and has more and more vivid hallucinations.

It is ultimately revealed through dream-like exchanges with Dr. Rossi, Bruce's psychiatrist, that he is on medication for bipolar disorder and has repressed immense feelings of guilt over a childhood accident that led to the death of his younger brother. We learn his wife Carole has left him and is denying him access to his daughter Stacey.

These domestic issues sparked his desperate bid for promotion, played a part in his unusual displays of kindness toward Mary and her son, and have also led him to start cross-dressing as his wife when off duty in order to "keep her close" to him.

While wandering the streets on such an occasion, Bruce is kidnapped by a street gang led by the thuggish Gorman – who are responsible for the murder – and badly beaten. However, he manages to kill Gorman by throwing him through a window and is found by his colleagues. Bruce not only misses out on the promotion as a result of the events, but is in fact demoted to Constable and is reassigned to uniform, while rookie Ray Lennox is promoted to Detective Inspector.

Afterwards, Blades receives a tape of Bruce apologising. Bruce then prepares to take his own life by hanging, but is interrupted at the last moment by Mary and her son knocking at his front door. He then breaks the fourth wall and addresses the audience repeating his catchphrase – "same rules apply" – and laughs as the chair slips from under him.

Cast

James McAvoy as Bruce "Robbo" Robertson
Jamie Bell as Ray Lennox
Eddie Marsan as Clifford Blades
Imogen Poots as Amanda Drummond
Brian McCardie as Dougie Gillman
Emun Elliott as Peter Inglis
Gary Lewis as Gus Bain
John Sessions as Bob Toal
Shauna Macdonald as Carole Robertson
Jim Broadbent as Dr. Verme Rossi
Joanne Froggatt as Mary
Kate Dickie as Chrissie Gillman
Martin Compston as Graeme Gorman
Iain De Caestecker as Ocky
Shirley Henderson as Bunty Blades
Joy McAvoy as Estelle
Jordan Young as Lexo
Pollyanna McIntosh as Karen
Bobby Rainsbury as Stephanie
Zack Niizato as Japanese Student
Therese Bradley as Madame Maisie
Robin Laing as Rent Boy
Franziska Altmeyer as Hamburg Carole
Ron Donachie as Hector
Tracy-Ann Oberman as Diana
Mitchell Mullen as Bobby
Jake Wilson as Davie Robertson
Luke MacDonald as Euan
David Soul as Punter
Natasha O'Keeffe as Anna
Chidi Chickwe as Steven
Sanjeev Kohli as Sunil
Neil D'Souza as Anil
Trudie Styler as Madame R Zen Ficken
Megan Finn as Stacey Robertson

Production

Welsh's novel was published in 1998, but over the following years the project was passed between producers and acquired a reputation of being "un-filmable".^[7]

Music

Track listing

Source:^[8]

No.	Title	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Robbo's Theme"	Clint Mansell	1:14
2.	"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"	The Shirelles	0:17
3.	"Love Really Hurts Without You"	Billy Ocean	2:42
4.	"Silver Lady"	David Soul	3:00
5.	"It's All Over Me"	Otis Blackwell	3:43
6.	"Born To Be Wild"	Wilson Pickett	2:44
7.	"Supermarket Emptiness"	Clint Mansell	0:37
8.	"Creep"	Clint Mansell & Coco Sumner	2:07
9.	"Dr Love"	Tom Jones	4:12
10.	"Mercy"	The Third Degree	1:51
11.	"Backdoor Santa"	Clarence Carter	3:20
Total length:			25:47

Other notable pieces include^[9]

Reception

Box office

The film earned £250,000 in the box office revenue during its opening weekend in Scotland, reaching number one in the charts.^[10] It grossed £842,167 ($1.4m) in the following weekend, when it went on general release throughout the United Kingdom.^[11] The film ultimately ended up grossing $9.1 million worldwide.^[5]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 66% based on 97 reviews and an average rating of 6.20/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Warped, grimy and enthusiastically unpleasant, Filth lives up to its title splendidly."^[12] The film also has a score of 56 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 24 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[13]