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 Childhood is a 1982 drama biography movie directed by Bill Douglas, starring Stephen Archibald, Karl Fieseler, Hughie Restorick. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.3/10 from 1,538 votes and runs 46m.