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05/06/2002

BBC Two - Ratcatcher

Lynne Ramsey's gritty drama set in 70s Glasgow during a refuse collection strike.

Drama set in 1970s Glasgow in which a 12-year-old boy haunted by a terrible secret finds solace in a world of his own on the banks of a canal.

Lynne Ramsay's gritty debut feature Ratcatcher is a lyrical portrait of a boy growing up on the wrong side of the tracks. 

Set in Glasgow in the 1970s, Ratcatcher is seen through the eyes of 12-year-old James Gillespie, a young boy haunted by a secret.

As he is feeling increasingly distant from his family, his only escape comes with the discovery of a new housing development on the outskirts of town, where he has the freedom to lose himself in his own world. Enticed by a gang of older boys, James is thrown together with vulnerable 14-year-old Margaret Anne, and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship which becomes their hesitant but touching experience of first love.

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