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Scrapper
Film poster
Directed byCharlotte Regan
Written byCharlotte Regan
Starring
CinematographyMolly Manning Walker
Edited by
  • Matteo Bini
  • Billy Sneddon
Music byPatrick Jonsson
Production
companies
Distributed byPicturehouse
Release date
  • 23 January 2023 (2023-01-23) (Sundance)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$843,867[1][2]

Scrapper is a 2023 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Charlotte Regan in her feature debut. It is made by BBC Film and BFI in association with Great Point Media, and stars Harris Dickinson, Lola Campbell and Alin Uzun.

The film premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. It was released on 25 August 2023.[3]

Synopsis

Jason returns from his life in Ibiza to live with his 12-year-old daughter Georgie, whom he has never previously met, after her mother Vicky dies.[4]

Cast

  • Harris Dickinson as Jason
  • Lola Campbell as Georgie
  • Alin Uzun as Ali
  • Cary Crankson
  • Carys Bowkett
  • Freya Bell as Layla
  • Laura Aikman as Kaye
  • Ayokunle Oyesanwo
  • Ayobami Oyesanwo
  • Ayooluwa Oyesanwo
  • Olivia Brady as Vicky

Production

Principal photography took place in East London in the summer of 2021. Dickinson had previously worked with writer/director Regan and producer Barrowclough before on the 2019 short film Oats & Barley. Dickinson told Deadline that he "really wanted to work with those guys again. I read the script and liked the story and saw Lola's tape and thought it would be an in interesting thing to do."[5] Funding came from DMC Film, BFI, BBC Films, Great Point Media, and Creative England.[6]

In May 2022, France-based company Charades picked up the film to handle worldwide distributing rights.[7] In February 2023, Charades revealed the rights had been sold to Picturehouse (UK) and Madman Entertainment (Australia), among others.[8]

Release

The film premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.[9][10][11] Scrapper was released in theaters on August 25, 2023.

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 90% of 72 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 7.3 out of 10. The website's consensus reads: "Like a cold treat on a hot day, Scrapper delivers two scoops of a sweet father-daughter dramedy best consumed when in need of a hug."[12] Metacritic gives the film a weighted average rating of 72 out of 100, based on 23 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[13]

Leslie Felperin in The Hollywood Reporter praised the performance of the leads, saying Dickinson "brings soulfulness to his rapscallion hitherto-absentee dad Jason, and total newcomer Lola Campbell, who brings natural comic timing to her turn as 12-year-old protagonist Georgie".[14] Damon Wise in Deadline Hollywood also mentioned the two leads, saying: "Scrapper is essentially a two-hander, since the fat-free plot is essentially the two getting to know each other and finding out whether they might even like each other… Campbell [is] something of a find, in a spiky role that brings a refreshing, unsentimental edge to this after-Aftersun story". Adding: "It's also good to see a kitchen-sink drama that doesn't take itself overly seriously, but the downside of that is that Scrapper sometimes seems a little flippant, given that, smart as she is, our plucky heroine is still a vulnerable child, all alone in the world. Still, it's early days in Regan's career, and it will be interesting to see what other kinds of stories and genres she has in her offbeat sights".[15]

Variety writer Guy Lodge highlighted the pastel coloured palette of the film, which "offers a sunnier take on familiar kitchen-sink territory, but is occasionally a touch too cute". He described the work of director of photography Molly Manning Walker as "vibrant, stock-shifting lensing" which "deftly negotiates the film's toggling impulses between social and magic realism". Production designer Elena Muntoni is said to strike "a clever balance between mundanely escapist decorative flourishes — like the cotton-candy clouds painted on a bedroom wall — and Georgie's actual flights of fantasy, like the scrap-metal tower she builds to the sky in a locked spare room. Reality eventually makes cruel but necessary intrusions in her life, and in Regan's film too: Both are stronger for the disruption."[16]

References

  1. ^ "Scrapper". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved September 18, 2023.Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Scrapper". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved September 18, 2023.
  3. ^ Conor, Andrew (June 29, 2023). "Charlotte Regan's 'Scrapper' Starring Harris Dickinson and Lola Campbell Poster and Release Date Revealed". Maxblizz. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  4. ^ Solomons, Adam (January 23, 2023). "'Scrapper' Review: Harris Dickinson Stars in Charlotte Regan's Low-Key but High-Spirited Debut". IndieWire. Archived from the original on January 26, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  5. ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (January 20, 2023). "Harris Dickinson, Big Screen Debutant Lola Campbell Talk "Fun" 'Scrapper' Shoot Ahead Of UK Indie Drama's Sundance Debut". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 25, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  6. ^ "Scrapper". BBC. Archived from the original on January 26, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  7. ^ Mellisa, Kasule (May 3, 2022). "Charades picks up Charlotte Regan's 'Scrapper', starring Harris Dickinson (exclusive)". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on May 26, 2022. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  8. ^ "Sundance Prizewinning 'Scrapper' Starring Harris Dickinson Sells to Major Markets for Charades". Variety. February 16, 2023. Archived from the original on February 16, 2023.
  9. ^ Grobar, Matt (January 27, 2023). "Sundance Awards: 'The Persian Version', 'Kokomo City' Among Repeat Winners As 'A Thousand And One', 'Going To Mars' Claim U.S. Grand Jury Prizes". Deadline. Archived from the original on January 29, 2023.
  10. ^ "'Scrapper': Sundance Review". Screen Daily. January 23, 2023. Archived from the original on January 23, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  11. ^ Nikkhah Azad, Navid (March 7, 2023). "UK premiere of SCRAPPER on July 6, 2023 to open Sundance Film Festival: London". Deed News. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
  12. ^ "Scrapper". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on June 29, 2023. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
  13. ^ "Scrapper Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on January 31, 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  14. ^ Felperin, Leslie (January 23, 2023). "'Scrapper' Review: Harris Dickinson in a Stylish but Strenuously Quirky Father-Daughter Dramedy". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on January 27, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  15. ^ Wise, Damon (January 25, 2023). "Sundance Review: Kitchen-Sink Whimsy In Charlotte Regan's 'Scrapper'". Deadline. Archived from the original on January 29, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  16. ^ Lodge, Guy (January 23, 2023). "'Scrapper' Review: Harris Dickinson is a Deadbeat Dad With a Heart in a Sweet, Pastel-Colored Spin on British Realism". Variety. Archived from the original on January 27, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
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