Scrubbers is a 1983

1983 in film

-Events:*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York*May 25 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the top grossing picture of...

 British drama film directed by Mai Zetterling

Mai Zetterling

-Early life:Zetterling was born in Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actress by the age of seventeen at Dramaten, the Swedish national theater, and appeared in war-era film starting in her teens.-Career:...

 and starring Amanda York and Chrissie Cotterill. It was shot primarily in Virginia Water

Virginia Water

Virginia Water is an affluent village, a lake and, originally, a stream, the village being in the Runnymede Borough Council in Surrey and the bodies of water stretching over the borders of Runnymede, Old Windsor and Sunninghill and Ascot, England....

, Surrey, England. It was inspired by the success of the 1979 film Scum

Scum (film)

Scum is a 1979 British crime drama film directed by Alan Clarke, portraying the brutality of life inside a British borstal. The story was originally made for the BBC's Play for Today strand in 1977, however due to the violence depicted in the film, it was withdrawn from broadcast...

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Plot

Two girls escape from an open borstal. Annetta (Chrissie Cotterill) wants to visit her baby daughter who is being raised in a convent. Carol (Amanda York) plans to be recaptured and sent to the closed borstal where her girlfriend Doreen is being held. Carol's plan works, but she is devastated to find that Doreen has a new girlfriend. Doreen and the girl friend taunt Carol. Annetta is arrested at the convent and sent to the same closed borstal. She assumes Carol "grassed" her up and proceeds to plan her revenge. Inmate Eddie professes her love for Carol and offers protection, so Carol begins a relationship with her. Annetta's constant bullying attempts keep her in solitary confinement. When Eddie is released Carol loses her protection and Annetta plans another attack.

Cast

• Amanda York - Carol Howden
• Chrissie Cotterill - Annetta Brady
• Elizabeth Edmonds - Kathleen
• Kate Ingram - Eddie
• Amanda Symonds - Mac
• Kathy Burke
  Kathy Burke
  Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke is an English actress, comedienne, playwright and theatre director. She is best known for her portrayals of Perry in the Harry Enfield film Kevin and Perry Go Large, and of Linda La Hughes in the British sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme...
  
   - Glennis
• Debby Bishop
  Debby Bishop
  Debby Bishop is a British actress. She is probably best known to television viewers for her appearance in the second series of the crime drama Widows, having taken over the part of Bella O'Reilly from Eva Mottley....
  
   - Doreen
• Eva Mottley
  Eva Mottley
  Eva Mottley was a British actress, best known for her role as Bella O'Reilly in the acclaimed television drama Widows....
  
   - Pam
• Imogen Bain - Sandy
• Honey Bane
  Honey Bane
  Honey Bane is an English singer and actress, possibly best known for her 1981 UK Top 40 single "Turn Me On Turn Me Off"....
  
   - Molly
• Camille Davis - Sharon
• Rachael Weaver - Gwen
• Dana Gillespie
  Dana Gillespie
  Dana Gillespie is an English actress and singer.-Career:Gillespie was born to the Baron De Winterstein Gillespie, an Austrian radiologist, and his wife. She grew up in England and her family's villa in Maccagno, a village on Lake Maggiore, Italy...
  
   - Budd
• Pauline Melville
  Pauline Melville
  Pauline Melville is a Guyanese-born writer and actress. Her mother was English, and her father Guyanese. Her first book, Shape-Shifter , a collection of short stories, won the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize , and the Guardian Fiction Prize.The book consists of a number of short stories dealing...
  
   - Crow
• Pam St. Clement
  Pam St. Clement
  Pamela Ann Clement , known by the stage name Pam St. Clement, is an English actress. She has played Pat Evans in the BBC soap opera EastEnders since 1986, and is now one of the programme's longest-serving cast members. St. Clement announced her intention to leave EastEnders on 8 July 2011 and will...
  
   - Strapper
• Miriam Margolyes
  Miriam Margolyes
  Miriam Margolyes, OBE is an English actress and voice artist. Her earliest roles were in theatre and after several supporting roles in film and television she won a BAFTA Award for her role in The Age of Innocence .-Early life:...
  
   - Jones
• Jackie Holborough - Daly
• Brian Croucher
  Brian Croucher
  Brian Croucher is an English actor and director perhaps best known for his role as Ted Hills, which he played from 1995 to 1997, in the soap opera EastEnders....
  
   - Leo
• Tim Kightley - Dr. Siles
• Robbie Coltrane
  Robbie Coltrane
  Robbie Coltrane, OBE is a Scottish actor, comedian and author. He is known both for his role as Dr...
  
   - Puff Guts
• Jane Freeman - Sister
• Valerie Lilley
  Valerie Lilley
  Valerie Lilley is a Northern Irish actress who has played many television roles on dramas such as Doctors and Grange Hill.Lilley currently appears on Channel 4's serial drama Shameless....
  
   - Nun
• Ken Shorter - Lorry driver