Scum

IMDb link: 0200095
IMDb rating: 7.6 (2,980 votes)
Genres: Crime, Drama
Director: Alan Clarke
Cast: Ray Winstone, David Threlfall, Martin Phillips, Davidson Knight and others

Release date: 27 Jul 1991
Release year: 1991
Runtime: 78 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: teenage boy, borstal, brutality, blood, improvised weapon, racist language, juvenile delinquency, english culture, proles, head smashed against a sink

Plot:

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'.

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