Pierrepoint

Following in his father’s footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) becomes one of Britain’s most prolific executioners, hiding his identity by working as a grocery deliveryman. But his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret. When he becomes a minor celebrity, Pierrepoint faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Juliet Stevenson plays Pierrepoint’s oblivious wife in this biopic based on real events.