Ratcatcher (1999)
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Cast
as James
as Da
as Ma
as Ellen
as Anne Marie
as Margaret Anne
as Mrs. Quinn
as Mr. Quinn
as Mrs. Fowler
as Matt Monroe
as Billy
as Stef
as Hammy
as Ryan
as Tommy
as Mackie
as Mackie
as Mr. Mohan
as Insurance man
as Mr. Mullen
as Rita
as Elderly Lady
as Kitten Girl
as Soldier
as Soldier
as Scavenger
as Scavenger
as Bus Driver
as Boy on Bike
as Jesse
as Boy
as Artie
as Anne Marie's Friend
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Critic Reviews for Ratcatcher
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Some may find such wrenching realities shocking, if not reprehensible. Others may glean meaning in their starkness -- a meaning that transcends the film's despair with the power of its truth.
Ramsay's imaginative shot-making gifts make for a sublime result, creating a different sort of magical realism than we're used to seeing.
In any good film, the opening shot is telling, and Ratcatcher is a very good film.
Lynne Ramsay bears watching. But when we talk about advances in the art of movies we have to be talking about leaps of feeling, not just leaps of technique.
Ratcatcher goes straight to the head.
Ramsay tells much of the story through a series of images, each more marvellous than the last.
Audience Reviews for Ratcatcher
A gritty, realistic, sort of depressing movie, but if you like those kinds of dramas, it's really good. I think it was a good movie.
Super Reviewer
This is a film that has always been highly recommended to me and whilst I believe this to be a film that has portrayed a gritty Drama, with a realistic setting and very natural performances, I seemed to have missed the point to the film. the storyline to me failed to deliver a means to an end, which is such a shame because it's of great quality.
Super Reviewer
In the garbage strewn and rat infested streets of 70's Glasglow, there lies the rudimentary cinematic climax: that of poverty. For the young and still slightly innocent James, his downward spiral into depression starts with the death of a friend, possibly at his own hand. As the film progresses, the gritty reality of living in a slum, smellier than usual thanks to a garbage strike, becomes all too hard for him, and he frequently escapes to a model home in the country. Though he is tormented by a group of spiteful teenage boys, he does meet and fall for a girl who's glasses reside in the canal James fears to enter. The historical context and the ramifications of the many character's actions never fall under plausible. only possible. James' family is awaiting a transfer into a new house as the tenements they live in are being bought and demolished. Hope glides beneath the surface,as they battle each other with hate filled words and violence. The worst horror is the manifestation of bile within James' friend, once a member of the RSPCA, and now he himself kills the rats that infest the garbage piles surrounded them on all sides. Very bleak and dreary, you always wish for something better for James, a protaganist that may be the only unsullied person left.
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