This is a classic tale of a boy's rite of passage, dramatically heightened by the terrifying struggle the boy, Natty Dunston, must undergo at the hands of his tyrannical father.
The story of a young linen-weaver whose dreams are destroyed when he is falsely accused of a crime. Isolating himself, he becomes a selfish and despondent miser. Despair turns to hope when he adopts an abandoned child, but their happiness may end when her real father returns. Starring Ben Kingsley and Jenny Agutter.