08 Sep 2021
JJ+E
Elisabeth and John John are raised in the same city, yet they live light years apart, separated economically, socially and culturally. That is until the day they start in the same high school class.
My Childhood
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.
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Stephen Archibald Jamie
Hughie Restorick Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith Grandmother
Karl Fieseler Helmuth
Paul Kermack Jamie's father
Helena Gloag Father's mother
Ann Smith Jamie's mother
Eileen McCallum Nurse
Helen Rae Bus conductress
James Eccles Man singing
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