My Ain Folk

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Audience Score
68
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NR 55 minDramaBill Douglas Trilogy PosterPart of Bill Douglas Trilogy
When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and bouts of violence.
StarringStephen ArchibaldHughie RestorickJean Taylor Smith
DirectorBill Douglas
WriterBill Douglas

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Production Companies:BFI
Movie Tags:
autobiographicalneglectchild neglect

Bill Douglas Trilogy

The Bill Douglas Trilogy recounts the harrowing experiences of a young boy, Jamie, growing up in crippling poverty: material and emotional impoverishment; harrowing privations at the hands of his paternal grandmother; incarceration in a children’s home; living in a hostel for down-and-outs.