#2: Feb 17th 2014 at 3:54:51 AM
Yep. I have. It's one of the best British films ever made, and the establishment hated it. Even the BBC, its makers, tried to bury the thing. It only really became available to view again on Channel 4, by which time the script had been altered to better fit the reality of the hell that borstal was for a lot of kids and the language and violence became far more explicit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scum_(film)
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Has anyone seen this? It's a movie portraying life in a British borstal in the 1970s and is partially the reason why the borstal system was demolished! It's inspired remakes, such as Bad Boys (Not the Will Smith vehicle) and Dog Pound.