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    Scrubbers (1982)

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    Inspired by the success of the 1979 film Scum, this British drama graphically depicts the ugliness of life within a woman’s borstal (youth detention centre).

    Two girls escape from an open borstal: teenage mother Annetta (Chrissie Cotterill) wants to visit her baby daughter (who is being raised in a convent) and lesbian Carol (Amanda York) hopes to be recaptured and sent to a closed borstal where her girlfriend Doreen is being held.

    Carol’s plan works, although she is devastated to find that Doreen (Debby Bishop) has found herself a new girlfriend inside.

    When Annetta is arrested at the convent and sent to the same closed borstal, she assumes it was Carol who grassed her up and proceeds to plan her revenge.

    Carol finds protection in the form of inmate Eddie (Kate Ingram), while Annetta’s constant bullying attempts keep her in solitary confinement. But Carol’s world is turned upside-down when Eddie is released from borstal and her protection is gone.

    All the actresses – many of them unknowns – are (clearly) too old to be playing 20-year-olds but the film is well-acted, well-scripted, thought-provoking and unpleasant.

    Carol Howden
    Amanda York
    Annetta Brady
    Chrissie Cotterill
    Kathleen
    Elizabeth Edmonds
    Eddie
    Kate Ingram
    Mac
    Mandi Symonds
    Glennis
    Kathy Burke
    Doreen
    Debby Bishop
    Pam
    Eva Mottley
    Sandy
    Imogen Bain
    Molly
    Honey Bane
    Sharon
    Camille Davis
    Gwen
    Rachel Weaver
    Mary
    Dawn Archibald
    Hilary
    Faith Tingle
    Phyllis
    Lilian Rostkowska
    Eva
    Anna Mackeown
    Budd
    Dana Gillespie
    Crow
    Pauline Melville
    Strapper
    Pam St. Clement
    Jones
    Miriam Margolyes
    Daly
    Jacqueline Holborough
    Shaw
    Caroline Needs
    Mrs Paddy
    Olwen Griffiths
    Miss Holly
    Carol Gillies
    Governor
    Richard Butler
    Leo
    Brian Croucher
    Dr Siles
    Tim Kightley
    Puff Guts
    Robbie Coltrane
    Sister
    Jane Freeman
    Terry
    Steve Alder
    Rex
    Ken Shorter
    Gary
    Bradley Hardiman

    Director
    Mai Zetterling

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