The Bay Boy

The Bay Boy is a 1984 Canadian film. It is a semi-autobiographical film based on director Daniel Petrie's experiences of growing up in Glace Bay, a mining town on Cape Breton Island, during the Great Depression. It features the screen debut of Kiefer Sutherland as the film's central character. Donald Campbell is a sensitive teenage boy coming of age in a dark and uncertain time for both his community and life. His mother wants him to continue his education after high school and become a priest, but Donald is more interested in girls than prayerbooks. After an unsuccessful attempt by a... visiting priest to molest him, followed by his first sexual experience with a local girl, Donald politely informs his mother that he is not going to be a priest. Meanwhile, when he is not in school, Donald spends his time helping his father dig a Bootleg Pit; helps care for his older brother, Joe, who was the brightest boy in his grade until he got sick and was left disabled; and pursues Saxon Coldwell , one of police Sergeant Coldwell's two daughters. Sergeant Coldwell's wife died a few months earlier.
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