My Childhood

1972

Biography / Drama

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 89%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 1461 1.5K

scotland coming of age autobiographical child neglect animal cruelty 1940s

Plot summary

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.

Director

Bill Douglas Photo
Bill Douglas

Top cast

Ann Smith Photo
Ann Smith as Jamie's Mother
Helen Rae Photo
Helen Rae as Bus Conductress
James Eccles Photo
James Eccles as Man Singing
Paul Kermack Photo
Paul Kermack as Jamie's Father
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
425.81 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
12 hr 46 min
Seeds 8
790.67 MB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
12 hr 46 min
Seeds 33

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rawkmonster 8 / 10

A film that pulls you down into the dirt

Reviewed by mark-rojinsky 7 / 10

A stark, bleak but poetic evocation of working-class poverty

Bill Douglas's extraordinary monochrome trilogy from the '70s. It seems like a Play for Today but with metaphysical undertones and Tarkovskian touches despite the very bleak domestic setting in a Scottish coal-mining town (Newcraighall) in the '40s; it records time incisively. 1972 was that most downbeat of hippy years and also had a strangely 'Caledonian-ish' tinge. Overall, one of the high-points of Scottish film and cinema.
Reviewed by Polaris_DiB 7 / 10

Minimalist mode of a familiar British style

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