Ratcatcher
Drama
7.111/10
|GB
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|94 min
Release Date: 1999-11-12
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
PathéBBC FilmArts Council of EnglandLes Productions LazennecLe Studio Canal+Holy Cow Films
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
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-r...
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