He fills the part with lopsided wobble - caused by drink, drugs and dystrophy - and punctuates each silence with involuntary creaks and groans. Tom Hardy, playing the title role, makes a compelling, wounded, shuffling Stuart. Together they amble through town and country Alexander like a gangly librarian embracing life for the first time, Stuart bimbling beside him like an orphaned penguin - albeit one that might knife you if you looked at him funny. Something changes between them: Alexander stops treating his subject like a subject, and starts treating him like a person - in time, a friend. "Why would you want to write the story of my life?" "To make loads of MONEY!" replies Alexander, tactfully. Alexander comes up with a brilliant plan. Upon his arrival, he quickly pulls the crumb tray out from under Alexander's tidy life and sprinkles the burnt bits over everything around him. The pair live in the same Cambridge but entirely different worlds: Stuart is a violent, disabled, homeless addict, in and out of institutions since childhood.
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