The Custard Boys
- Movies
- 1979-11-24
- EN
- Released
- 1h 22m
- GB
- Drama - Family
Production
Children's Film Unit
Storyline
An Indian summer, 1942: "When I was thirteen, all I wanted to be was a hero." A young evacuee's response to the surrounding war-obsessed adult world seems the only one available to him, until he forms 'a particular friendship' with another boy, a Jewish refugee. This threatens the stability of his gang (who also mirror the racist/jingoist attitudes of adulthood), and he is caught in Forster's great liberal crux: your country or your friend?