My Ain Folk(1973)

Name: My Ain Folk
Director: Bill Douglas
Released: 1973-12-01
Rating: 7.103
Cast: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna, Mr. Munro

12/01/1973 (US)Drama0h 55m

7.1

Overview

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.

Bill Douglas

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Bill Douglas

Director

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Stephen Archibald

Jamie

Hughie Restorick

Tommy

Jean Taylor Smith

Grandmother

Bernard McKenna

Tommy's father

Mr. Munro

Jamie's grandad

Paul Kermack

Jamie's father

Helena Gloag

Father's mother

Jessie Combe

Father's wife

William Carroll

Father's son

Anne McLeod

Father's girlfriend

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Part of the Bill Douglas Trilogy

The Bill Douglas Trilogy recounts the harrowing experiences of a young boy, Jamie, growing up in crippling poverty: material and emotional impoverishment; harrowing privations at the hands of his paternal grandmother; incarceration in a children’s home; living in a hostel for down-and-outs.