My Childhood (1972)
Overview
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.
Cast
Stephen Archibald
Jamie
Hughie Restorick
Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith
Grandmother
Bernard McKenna
Tommy's father
Paul Kermack
Jamie's father
Helena Gloag
Father's mother
Eileen McCallum
NurseRecommendations
Gaslight
Goodnight, Mister Tom
The Secret Garden
Wonder
Small Things Like These
Sounder
Greyfriars Bobby
A Home of Our Own
Finding Neverland
The Plague Dogs
Lord of the Flies
Radium Girls
Secrets & Lies
Flowers in the Attic
The Elephant Man
Oranges and Sunshine
Lorenzo's Oil
A Woman's Face
Here
The Deep End of the Ocean