A Hard Name is a 2009 documentary film by Alan Zweig that explores the lives of ex-convicts.
[2] The men talk about insights they have gained about their lives, including how childhood abuse led to a life of crime.
[3] Another of the film's subjects was abused as a child while a resident at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
A Hard Name ends with archival television footage of him performing, playing the guitar and singing for other young residents of the home.
[1] It was also chosen as one of the top ten audience favourites at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.