My Childhood (1972)

★ 7.0 0h 47m IMDb
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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.

My Childhood

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Cast

Stephen Archibald
Stephen Archibald as Jamie
Hughie Restorick
Hughie Restorick as Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith
Jean Taylor Smith as Grandmother Age 125 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Bernard McKenna
Bernard McKenna as Tommy's father
Paul Kermack
Paul Kermack as Jamie's father Died 1990 · Queenston Bank, Dirlton, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Helena Gloag
Helena Gloag as Father's mother Died 1973
Director Bill Douglas
Cast Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler, Bernard McKenna, Paul Kermack, Helena Gloag, Ann Smith, Eileen McCallum, Helen Rae

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