Buster is a 1988 British romantic crime comedy-drama based on events from the Great Train Robbery, starring Phil Collins and Julie Walters.

The film opens with Buster walking along his local high street and breaking into a shop to steal a suit, which he then wears to a funeral.

The gang decide to return to London, where they meet their 'contact', a solicitor's clerk who, as in the original plan, is to arrange for the farmhouse to be cleared and fully cleaned.

During the journey, they hear on the radio that the farmhouse hideout has been discovered, so they abandon their plans and return to London, hoping they will have time to escape with their families.

Politicians, incensed that the gang are being treated as antiheros by the newspapers, demand that they be punished with extraordinarily long prison sentences, and that no plea bargains ("deals") will be offered to any of the accused.

Buster remains in Acapulco after June leaves, until realising (while celebrating England's 1966 World Cup triumph), that having money and the sun means nothing if he doesn't have his family.

Skipping forward to a later date after he has been released, Buster is seemingly content and running a flower stall near London's Waterloo Bridge, but he breaks the fourth wall and explains to the audience he still has a "dream", as he and June walk away as the end credits roll.

He is seen walking out of the airport (62 minutes into the film) with his girlfriend, played by Phil Collins’ wife, just before Buster, June, and Nicky also leave.

[3] Prince Charles and Princess Diana cancelled their attendance of the film's premiere on 15 September 1988, on the advice of Phil Collins, due to the controversy around it.

"[12] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 3 out of 4 and wrote: "Buster is played with surprising effectiveness by rock star Phil Collins, who looks and sounds like a gentler Bob Hoskins.