Scrapper
Scrapper
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.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 4, 2025
Cute and effective. Lola Campbell carries the film in every sense as a grieving Georgie left on her own when her mother passes away. She gets by stealing bicycles and pawning or selling for scrap. Smart and resilient and clearly capable of surviving on her own, but when her estranged father (Harris Dickinson) comes back into her life it opens the door for the possibility that maybe she does need (or rather, want) for someone to take care of her. Mostly predictable but it’s still a very cute story and when the voicemail scene hits, I was caught off guard how moving that scene would be. I think I would have liked to have gotten more background on Dickinson’s character. I think there was potential for him to have an equally compelling arc, but as it stands Lola’s performance and arc was really well done.