The Bay Boy (1984)

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Kiefer Sutherland won a Genie Award for his performance in Bay Boy. In 1937 Nova Scotia, Donald Campbell (Sutherland) lives with his dirt-poor parents (Liv Ullmann and Peter Donat). His folks hope that Donald will enter the priesthood, but he isn't keen on this. For one thing, he harbors "unnatural"… More Kiefer Sutherland won a Genie Award for his performance in Bay Boy. In 1937 Nova Scotia, Donald Campbell (Sutherland) lives with his dirt-poor parents (Liv Ullmann and Peter Donat). His folks hope that Donald will enter the priesthood, but he isn't keen on this. For one thing, he harbors "unnatural" feelings towards a nun; for another, one of the local priests has made sexual advances towards him. Donald prefers to spend his time with pretty sisters Saxon and Dianna (Leah Pinsent and Jane McKinnon) -- but even this becomes untenable when the boy witnesses a homicidal hate crime committed by the girls' father, police constable Tom Coldwell (Alan Scarfe). It is in this intolerable atmosphere that Donald finally comes of age, which is the point to which the film is leading. Weighed down with an unnecessarily complex script, Kiefer Sutherland comes off quite well in Bay Boy; the other performers -- even the estimable Liv Ullmann -- tend to be one-note stereotypes. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 47 min.
Directed By: Daniel Petrie Sr
Genres: Drama

In Theaters: Feb 15, 1985 Wide

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I enjoyed this movie. Kiefer Sutherland plays a boy growing up in Maritime Canada. The Bay boy goes through one crisis after another -- from an invalid brother, the death of a sister, advances by the town slut, advances by a priest, what to do when he witnesses his neighbour… More
I enjoyed this movie. Kiefer Sutherland plays a boy growing up in Maritime Canada. The Bay boy goes through one crisis after another -- from an invalid brother, the death of a sister, advances by the town slut, advances by a priest, what to do when he witnesses his neighbour murdering an elderly couple, etc.