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Summary

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.

Details

Release Date: December 1, 1973

Runtime: 55 minutes

Genres: Drama

Rating: 7.0/10 (32 votes)


Bill Douglas Trilogy

  • My Ain Folk

    My Ain Folk

    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.

  • My Childhood

    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.

  • My Way Home

    My Way Home

    Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.


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Cast

  • Stephen Archibald

    Stephen Archibald

    Jamie

  • Hughie Restorick

    Hughie Restorick

    Tommy

  • Jean Taylor Smith

    Jean Taylor Smith

    Grandmother

  • Paul Kermack

    Paul Kermack

    Jamie's father

  • Helena Gloag

    Helena Gloag

    Father's mother

  • Jessie Combe

    Jessie Combe

    Father's wife

  • William Carroll

    William Carroll

    Father's son