Scrapper

Twelve-year-old Georgie lives by herself in a flat in a working-class London suburb, getting by on money she and her friend Ali make stealing bicycles and keeping social workers away by claiming she lives with an uncle. When her estranged father Jason appears without warning, her carefully managed independence is disrupted, and the two of them have to work out how to deal with each other.

Scrapper is the first feature directed by Charlotte Regan, who also wrote the screenplay. Lola Campbell plays Georgie, with Harris Dickinson as Jason, Alin Uzun as Ali, Laura Aikman as Kaye, Ambreen Razia as Zeph and Asheq Akhtar as Youseff among a credited cast of 26. The film runs 84 minutes and was released in August 2023, produced by BBC Film, the BFI, Great Point Media and Creative England.

It had a worldwide box office of around 1 million USD, indicating a small-scale release for a British independent debut. On IMDb it holds 6.9/10 from 8,300 votes and on TMDB 6.6/10 from 192 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 7.4/10 from 117 reviews, meaning reviewers rated it somewhat more positively than the general audiences who have logged it.