Following her mother’s death, a resourceful 12-year-old girl, Georgie, continues to live alone in their London-outskirts flat. She makes money stealing bikes with her friend, Ali, and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. It works like a charm until Jason shows up.
Spirit and humor ripple through “Scrapper” and is enhanced through glowing performances from Harris Dickinson (“Triangle of Sadness”) and newcomer Lola Campbell. Charlotte Regan, a music video director since her teen years, pulls flavors from the world she grew up in to fashion a vibrant, joyful, imaginative story - full of flourish, aesthetic energy, and even talking spiders.