Rent Scrapper (2023)
3.5 of 5 from 174 ratings
1h 20min
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- Synopsis:
- It's said that it takes a village to raise a child but 12-year-old Georgie (Lola Campbell) has other ideas. Living alone since her beloved mum died, Georgie fills the flat they shared with her own special magic. But when her absent father Jason (Harris Dickinson) turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality. A dreamy, witty and unmissable tale of family and fresh starts, "Scrapper" is a film that believes life's not so much about chasing rainbows but snatching fistfuls in both hands.
- Actors:
- Lola Campbell, Alin Uzun, Cary Crankson, Carys Bowkett, Ambreen Razia, Ayokunle Oyesanwo, Ayobami Oyesabwo, Ayooluwa Oyesanwo, Freya Bell, Jessica Fostekew, Asheq Akhtar, Joshua Frater-Loughlin, Aysa Uzun, Ezel Uzin, Aylin Tezel, Tejal Rathore, Olivia Brady, Harris Dickinson, Matt Brewer, Daniel Burt
- Directors:
- Charlotte Regan
- Producers:
- Theo Barrowclough
- Writers:
- Charlotte Regan
- Aka:
- Nan / Yet To Be
- Studio:
- Picture House
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- Award Winners, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2024
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 13/11/2023
- Run Time:
- 83 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Behind the Scenes Featurette
- Interviews with Cast and Crew
- Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (4) of Scrapper
Quirky father-daughter comedy-drama - Scrapper review by PD
Charlotte Regan’s film inevitably invites comparison with fellow Briton Charlotte Wells’ 'Aftersun', since both revolve around the relationship between a working-class adolescent girl and her single-parent father during the summer holidays. But whilst 'Aftersun' is a seriously moving work of some depth and beauty, 'Scrapper' is ultimately a sweet bit of fluff that’s trying too hard to be funny and offbeat and ends up being too often simply annoying. But that's not so say that there isn't much to enjoy here. At the heart there’s a brace of superb performances from Harris Dickinson, who brings a certain soulfulness to the hitherto-absentee dad Jason, and newcomer Lola Campbell, who brings a truly remarkable natural comic timing to her turn as 12-year-old protagonist Georgie. Regan clearly has a knack with younger performers and elicits a relaxed, laconic air of confidence from Campbell (although sadly the supporting ensemble, which includes Alin Uzun as Georgie’s best friend Ali, Freya Bell as her nemesis Layla, and a chorus of bit players are much weaker). Meanwhile, the highly saturated colours of Elena Muntoni’s production design, Oliver Cronk’s costumes and Molly Manning Walker’s cinematography create a stylised, semi-magical world out of a shabby housing estate on the outskirts of East London. That quirky quality, much loved by British filmmakers these days, is undoubtedly fun, but only gets you so far. For what lets the film down is Regan’s underdeveloped script, which can’t manage the tonal shifts between grief, the various ethical conundrums, and comedy hijinks. And it takes a huge suspension of disbelief to accept the basic conceit that, after the sudden death of Georgie's mother, somehow no one from the adult world has worked out that this means Georgie is living entirely on her own, especially since she has somehow managed to bamboozle inquisitive social workers into thinking that she’s being minded by a fictitious uncle (the brief scenes involving the social workers are terribly mean). To survive, she's taken to stealing bicycles and selling them for cash, and we are invited to view this is charming and endearing, which would be very awkward were it not for the fact that Dickinson and Campbell make such a great double act. But what’s harder to swallow is that Georgie, Ali and, by extension, we the viewers should just shrug off the fact that her father has been an inarguably rotten, and utterly absent father up until now (and if you think about it, Georgie’s mother is more than a little culpable too given she made no arrangements to secure support for her child even though she knew she was going to die very soon). But emotional logic is clearly not being prioritised here in a film that’s more invested in visually interesting and touching moments where, for instance, father and daughter dance together in an abandoned building while backlighting pours through the empty windows. All in all, a film with many weaknesses but whose quirky quality and central performances carry us through.
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Entertaining and good fun - Scrapper review by SB
I enjoyed this more than I expected, considering it was a BBC production. Clever vignettes which cross the boundary between the little girl's imagination and the real world lending it a magical quality. OK you have to suspend belief that she could have got away with living on her own till her dad turns up but it was a pleasure to watch their relationship develop and a satisfactory ending.
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Interesting & Watchable British Drama - Scrapper review by GI
A tender hearted social realistic drama set on an East London estate where 12 year old Georgie (an impressive Lola Campbell) lives alone after her mother has suddenly died. Georgie is fiercely independent and has managed (perhaps somewhat incredulously) to hide from the authorities that she is alone having conned them that an Uncle is looking after her. Emotionally she has created a small fantasy world in the spare room but she's thrown by the unexpected arrival of her errant father, Jason (Harris Dickinson) who she has never before met and who threatens to report her to Social Services unless she lets him stay in the house. The theme of the narrative here is the bittersweet relationship between father and daughter that is explored throughout the film. There is humour and some interesting surrealistic aspects melded into the drama making it very watchable. There's no doubt this arguably should have been a more complex take on the fate of such children as Georgie and the almost ineptitude and cartoonish authority figures shown weakens the film but overall it's fun, well acted and a pleasant surprise.
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