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“Based on the classic coming of age memoir by Laurie Lee”
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
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Original Language
EN

This adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie comes of age under the protective eye of his mother, he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie discovers women.


Older Jack
Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.