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

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/