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
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  Hughie Restorick

  Tommy
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  Jean Taylor Smith

  Grandmother
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  Bernard McKenna

  Tommy's father
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  Paul Kermack

  Jamie's father
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  Helena Gloag

  Father's mother
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  Eileen McCallum

  Nurse