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Scum

IMDB: 7.5 1h 38m

Overview: This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. This film is a re-make, by the same director and writer, of a 1977 BBC teleplay banned before broadcast [see Scum (1991)].

Released: 1979
Duration: 1h 38m
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director: Alan Clarke

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