8th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

Scrubbers

With in person.

Sun, Jul 26 @ 7:15 pm

Institute of Contemporary Art

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Director

Mai Zetterling

Year

1982

Run Time

90

min

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

This film is presented in English with English subtitles.

Mai Zetterling's irreverent adventures of the lesbian prisoners known as the "Hellhole Bitches" contains such deathless lines as "I love you Eva, I fuckin' love you" (which booms out over the prison quadrangle) and "Give us a lick not a prick" - one of the best women behind bars movies ever made and unavailable for many years, Scrubbers is pulpy, poetic and political.

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