2023 · drama · comedy
Scrapper
Directed by Charlotte Regan1h 24m2023
A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But when her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality.
Our read: Scrapper (2023) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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