Ratcatcher (1999)

NR11/12/1999Drama1h 34m
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James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.

Top Billed Cast

  1. William Eadie

    James Gillespie

  2. Cast 1

    Tommy Flanagan

    Da

  3. Mandy Matthews

    Ma

  4. Michelle Stewart

    Ellen

  5. Lynne Ramsay Jr.

    Anne Marie

  6. Leanne Mullen

    Margaret Anne

  7. Jackie Quinn

    Mrs. Quinn

  8. James Ramsay

    Mr. Quinn

  9. Anne McLean

    Mrs. Fowler

It was quite odd watching this because I was just a little younger than the character of "James" (William Eadie) living in Glasgow in the 1970s. I remember the nine-week long dustmen strike that left tons of rubbish piled up all over the place. We lived in a mouse-infested one bed flat similar to the ones in the tenement buildings featured here, and that canal - well it was an overgrown, disease-ridden, deathtrap that had long been abandoned to nature. Back then, there was still ample waste ground - bomb damaged and cleared after the war, for us kids to play on, and that's what we did. Nobody ...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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