Scrapper (2023) on Netflix
Twelve-year-old Georgie lives alone in her London flat, telling social services that an uncle looks after her, and steals bikes with her friend Ali. Then her estranged father Jason turns up.
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- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb6.9/108,768 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes94%
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Plot summary
Georgie, twelve, has lived alone in her London flat since her mother Vicky died, keeping the place as Vicky left it and telling social services that an uncle is caring for her. Only her best friend Ali knows the truth, and he helps her steal bikes to get by. Her summer is disrupted when Jason, the father she has never met, arrives from Ibiza and insists on staying, threatening to tell social services her secret if she throws him out. Jason works at winning over Ali, but Georgie, who believes she is working through the stages of grief, keeps her distance while guarding her home and her memories of her mother.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Scrapper (2023)
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- Harris Dickinson had already worked with writer-director Charlotte Regan and producer Theo Barrowclough on the 2019 short film Oats & Barley, and told Deadline he wanted to work with them again after reading the script and seeing Lola Campbell's audition tape.
- The Limes Farm housing estate in Chigwell was picked as a key location because, Regan said, its balconies all look out on to where the kids play; such estates are so rare in London that the filmmakers had to go further out to find one.
