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Ratcatcher

1999

Action / Drama

Ratcatcher

1999

Action / Drama

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86% TOMATOMETER · 50 reviews

85% AUDIENCE · 5K ratings

7.5/10 · 13.6K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Lynne Ramsay

Top cast

Tommy Flanagan as Da

James Watson as Bus Driver

Rory McCann as Gordon

Nikky Smedley as Molly

Tech specs

720p.BLU 1080p.BLU

862.02 MB

1280*682

English 2.0

Not Rated

Subtitles

23.976 fps

1 hr 33 min

Seeds 1

1.56 GB

1920*1024

English 2.0

Not Rated

Subtitles

23.976 fps

1 hr 33 min

Seeds 23

Comments 6

Lil_Mikey 1224 days ago

Impressive

palmaamlap 1320 days ago

I'm a huge fan of Lynne Ramsay's work, thanks a lot

analferd 1826 days ago

I think I asked for this movie, awesome!

burnel72 1826 days ago

In the Footsteps of Ken Loach....little gem

CarlHauser 1826 days ago

Thanks freeman. I requested it a while ago. Much appreciated

Beeblebrox 1826 days ago

Ignore the cr@ppy synopsis written by some illiterate oaf - the movie itself is definitely worth seeing. 7/10.

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7 / 10

It was quite odd watching this because I

CinemaSerf

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…

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-ridden, deathtrap that had long been abandoned to nature. Back then, there was still ample waste ground - bomb damaged and cleared after the war, for us kids to play on, and that's what we did. Nobody had a car or a phone - or, for that matter, a washing machine, so when he goes out to play no wonder he was meant to tuck his trouser legs into his wellies! Mind you, I'd have thought the canal way too cold for him and his mate "Ryan" (Thomas McTaggart) to be be mucking around in, but that is what they are doing when tragedy strikes. It's this that forms the bedrock for this engagingly observational story of him and his life with his drunk of a father (Tommy Flanagan); caring, but no-nonsense mother (Mandy Matthews) and young sister. The photography powerfully depicts the squalor in which they live, ever hopeful that the folks from the council are going to come and offer them a new home on the city's outskirts where "James" dreams of having a real plumbed bath and a field of corn to play in. He also befriends "Margaret Anne" (Leanne Mullen), a slightly older girl who spends much of her time giving his mates their first semi-sexual experiences in her flat or in the cludgie. Alone else remember the "nit comb"? That actually proves to be the most unlikely of romantic conduits as the two use that and a hefty dose of eye-watering carbolic soap to discover a bond, a companionship, and some genuine moments of affection. Eadie is great here, he delivers in a most natural of styles and aided by Flanagan as his permanently sozzled but never violent father, by Matthews and by the remarkably engaging effort from his "retarded" neighbour "Kenny" (John Miller), presents us with a sense of a family and a community that certainly speaks most of the time in swear words, but still has standards of decency and a strong sense of looking out for each other. We were never a community that showed affection in any sentimental sense and with virtually no technology to rely on, we made our own entertainment - however grubby and dangerous it might look nowadays. Lynne Ramsay portrays that gritty urban living potently and plausibly here whilst remembering that this city is also populated by some of the most entertainingly sarcastic people on Earth. The "schemes" of Glasgow were nowhere to to live in 1973, but everyone was in the same boat - and that is really effectively demonstrated in this poignant search for hope, freedom and some hot water.

8 / 10

Melancholic tenderness prevails

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Ratcatcher is a beautiful film set in the less aesthetically pleasing back drop drop of the Glasgow tenement blocks of the nineteen seventies. It's a story…

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