The Bay Boy

REVIEW
A well-meaning but predictable coming-of-age drama set in 1930s Nova Scotia. Sutherland plays an awkward 16-year-old who is eager to be initiated into the rites of manhood, although opportunities are limited in the dismal mining town in which he and his mother (Ullmann) live. Attractively photographed, the film falls flat when dealing with the well-trodded theme of adolescent angst.