In the film Mona Lisa (1986), Robbie Coltrane played the friend of Bob Hoskins, the chauffeur to a high-class call girl. Coltrane bookends the movie: at the start he sympathetically leads the Hoskins character, released from prison, away from his abortive attempt to see his daughter (his ex-wife slamming the door in his face), and at the end is skipping happily arm-in-arm with father and daughter. He displayed the quirkiness of character and moral strength that would become his trademarks.
