My Childhood

June. 05,1972      NR
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

Stephen Archibald as  Jamie
Hughie Restorick as  Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith as  Grandmother
Bernard McKenna as  Tommy's father
Paul Kermack as  Jamie's father
Helena Gloag as  Father's mother
Eileen McCallum as  Nurse

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Reviews

Moustroll
1972/06/05

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Voxitype
1972/06/06

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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filippaberry84
1972/06/07

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Fatma Suarez
1972/06/08

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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