IMDb
7.3 /10
2k votes


Drama · 1972 · 47 min
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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IMDb
7.3 /10
2k votes
Rotten Tomatoes
89 /100
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Metacritic took the day off
TMDB
7.1 /10
52 votes
Letterboxd
7.8 /10
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Weighted average
7.8/10