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Scrapper

Scrapper

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  • United Kingdom
  • 2023
  • · 84m

Director Charlotte Regan
Cast Lola Campbell, Harris Dickinson, Alin Uzun, Laura Aikman, Ambreen Razia, Asheq Akhtar
Genre Comedy, Drama

After her mother dies, Georgie, a twelve-year-old girl, lives alone in London and supports herself by stealing bikes. When her estranged father, Jason, re-enters her life, he forces his way in by threatening to tell social services she has been lying about living with her uncle.

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Antoine Corbani

Exploding onto the ever-developing indie scene is Charlotte Regan's feature debut Scrapper, featuring brilliant performances from Harris Dickinson and young star Lola Campbell. The film examines the hardships of both parenthood and childhood with care, empathy, and quirky cynicism, making for a deeply moving and easily accessible narrative designed for a diverse audience. Bleeding with maturity, emotion, and style, "Scrapper" is exactly what the independent drama scene direly needs. A case study on humanity in a purely raw form and on our inherently flawed nature, the film is ultimately a gorgeous fable of forgiveness and love in a time where such virtues are most necessary.

What are critics saying?

90

The New York Times by Claire Shaffer

Scrapper is tender without falling into sappiness.

88

Washington Post by Ann Hornaday

Regan directs Scrapper with exceptional verve, interrupting the narrative with witty documentarylike asides whose framing evokes the poppy aesthetic of Wes Anderson.

88

Boston Globe by Odie Henderson

Most coming-of-age tales chart a course from childhood to maturity. Scrapper flips the premise, allowing a kid who grew up too fast the luxury of slowing down to savor childhood.

88

RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley

The resilience in Scrapper is a type of lived creativity, an imaginative space where Georgie—and her father—make up their own rules and their own world. This is an amazing directorial debut.

83

The Playlist by Alani Vargas

Watching Georgie embrace what’s making her vulnerable and realizing that doesn’t make her powerless is moving, and seeing this father and daughter connect is sweet. She, of course, will never let go of her fast-talking, hustling nature, but she now doesn’t have to do it alone.

83

IndieWire by Adam Solomons

Although Scrapper — and Georgie — have some rough edges, Regan’s film is remarkably gentle, without being schmaltzy. Its wry observations are more effective than the big emotional swings Scrapper sometimes, but not often, chooses to take.

80

Little White Lies by Hannah Strong

While Scrapper might not have the most original conceit, it’s a sweet, heartfelt take on the difficulty of father-daughter bonding, and how to be soft when you’ve tried to make yourself hard to avoid getting hurt.

80

Slashfilm by Marshall Shaffer

Scrapper is just the kind of scrappy triumph its title indicates. It's not the newness of the materials that matters here — it's how they are assembled with such care and consideration.

80

Time Out by Phil de Semlyen

Like Aftersun on a gallon of SunnyD, this warm and freewheeling comedy-drama about a girl connecting with the dad she’s never met proves that working-class stories don’t have to be all misery and angst. Sometimes, that kitchen sink can be filled with bubbles.

80

TheWrap

The story is familiar enough that it requires unerring lead performances, and though Regan has done an outstanding job working with her actors, credit must also go to casting director Shaheen Baig.