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Ratcatcher

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United Kingdom, France · 1999
1h 34m
Director Lynne Ramsay
Starring William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, Michelle Stewart
Genre Drama

12-year-old James Gillespie's world is changed as he becomes a stranger in his own home due to a dangerous secret. To escape his family and Scotland's national garbage strike, he is drawn to a canal where he creates a secret world of his own.

Stream Ratcatcher

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60

Salon by Charles Taylor

A large part of the movie's problem is that both the characters and the actors who portray them serve as vehicles for Ramsay's stylistic flourishes.

90

L.A. Weekly by John Patterson

Ramsay has made a movie in which a universe of hopelessness and decay is penetrated by shafts of light that remake these bleak surroundings in strange and beautiful ways.

83

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paula Nechak

The film manages to make the ordinary extraordinary. It takes visual risks, tells its story subjectively through images and moves confidently to a stunning, imaginative climax.

80

Time by Richard Corliss

Writer-director Ramsay neither sentimentalizes nor garishes up the lost children in this observant and poetic drama.

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