Growing up scared and scarred in a Glasgow slum in the late Sixties. The narrative is not very coherently threaded together or satisfyingly filled in: the single mother of three strapping lads is a notably spotty figure, and school is only for the administration of corporal punishment. And the direction of Gillies MacKinnon, who likes high angles as much as he likes low, supplies no consistent point of view. Taken one at a time, however, any of the (increasingly violent) vignettes can be made to fit comfortably in one or the other of the overlapping cinematic spheres of coming-of-age and gang warfare. With Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden, Clare Higgins. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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