My Way Home

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Audience Score
70
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NR 1 hr 12 minDramaBill Douglas Trilogy PosterPart of Bill Douglas Trilogy
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.
StarringStephen ArchibaldJoseph BlatchleyPaul Kermack
DirectorBill Douglas
WriterBill Douglas

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Production Companies:BFI
Movie Tags:
lgbtgay themeautobiographicalneglectchild neglect

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.