Dates and Times
- Tuesday, Jul 1, 2025 7pm
- Wednesday, Jul 2, 2025 3pm
- Thursday, Jul 3, 2025 9:15pm
Details
Something of a companion to Alan Clarke’s youth-in-revolt bombshell SCUM (both were written by playwright Roy Minton), SCRUBBERS is a viscerally gritty immersion into the harrowing world of a reform school for girls, directed with delirious intensity by Mai Zetterling, shot on location at a Surrey mental institution and informed by her visits to youth prisons and her conversations with inmates. Confined to a brutal borstal, Annetta (Chrissie Cotterill) longs to escape in order to reconnect with her infant daughter, while Carol (Amanda York) is determined to find a way to be transferred to the same prison as her girlfriend. The girls are from different walks of life but learn to survive together, fighting the system and often one another. The supporting cast includes UK comedian Kathy Burke (ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, SID AND NANCY, recently seen in BLITZ) in her screen debut. (Note adapted from the Criterion Collection.) DIR/SCR Mai Zetterling; SCR Roy Minton, Jeremy Watt; PROD Don Boyd. UK, 1982, color, 93 min. RATED R
