Kingsman star Harris Dickinson's absent father tries to reconnect with his bereaved daughter in this charmingly scrappy British indie that Film Brain feels is a warm hug of a movie.
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00:00 Out in the US and the UK this week is Charlotte Regan's debut feature, Scrapper, starring
00:04 Harris Dickinson. 12-year-old Georgie, played by Lola Campbell, has been living alone since
00:09 her mother's death, and has been surviving by stealing bikes and selling them when her
00:13 wayward father, played by Dickinson, reappears from Ibiza. Dickinson gives a nicely understated
00:18 performance as the absent father who finally learns to take responsibility, but the real
00:22 discovery here is Campbell, who gives an exceptional performance for a young performer in their
00:27 debut feature, showing an impressive dramatic range, but also a very deft sense of comic
00:33 timing. Much of the film's success rides on the dynamic between these two actors, which
00:38 starts out frosty and gradually thaws over the film's runtime. Much of the film is from
00:43 the POV of a child's imagination, and takes what could have been a depressing subject
00:47 matter and makes it colourful, energetic and humorous. It's a really sweet and charming
00:52 and yes, scrappy little movie that manages to feel like a warm hug at the end, and it
00:57 It does it in just 82 minutes.