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When his beloved brother is murdered, Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother's old friends.

The social and moral decay of modern day Britain has become a big part of the films being made in the UK today.

It's a British rite-of-passage crime thriller , because it opens with a closeup of the protagonist's face and a voiceover that says "That's me". Me on this occasion is Joe , an insomniac sufferer of social anxiety who gets paid a visit by confident, violent " Piggy " shortly after the murder of his brother.

Revenge sports an ugly, pig-nosed face in the upcoming film Piggy , which Metrodome Distribution has announced will hit select theaters on May 4 and then drop on DVD shelves May 21.

The actor has been praised for his big-screen roles in dark drama Piggy, Irvine Welsh's Filth, the award-winning euro drama Sister and The Wee Man, the story of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris to be released this summer.