Ratcatcher

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. 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.