Scrapper: Harris Dickinson bonds with his daughter in exclusive clip from movie dubbed ‘Ken Loach meets Wes Anderson’
New comedy-drama has been called ‘remarkably gentle’ since premiering on the festival circuit earlier this year
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Your support makes all the difference.Next month sees the release of one of the most anticipated British independent films of the year, the moving father-daughter comedy-drama Scrapper.
Harris Dickinson, following up a run of star-making performances in films including Triangle of Sadness and Where the Crawdads Sing, plays Jason, a well-intentioned ne’er-do-well who meets – for the first time – his estranged daughter Georgie (dazzling newcomer Lola Campbell) after her mother dies.
In this exclusive clip from the film, Jason and Georgie sit at a train station and act out the imagined conversation between a well-dressed couple on the platform opposite.
After debuting on the film festival circuit earlier this year, Scrapper drew critical raves, with Variety declaring first-time feature director Charlotte Regan’s film a “heightened blend of Ken Loach and Wes Anderson”. Campbell also earned significant praise, with the outlet remarking that she “[reels] off impudent dialogue with cheeky comic timing and a killer command of the withering eye-roll”.
By nature of its premise – and its buzzy leading man – Scrapper has understandably drawn comparisons to last year’s Oscar-nominated weepie Aftersun, starring Paul Mescal. But Regan’s movie is a sunnier affair, with Indiewire dubbing it “remarkably gentle, without being schmaltzy” and “wisely light of touch”.
Scrapper arrives in UK and Irish cinemas on 25 August, with exclusive Q&A previews from 15 August. For more information and to book tickets for previews go to https://scrapper.film/
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