Urchin

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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly

Urchin

Opens October 17—Westchester Exclusive

Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actor at Cannes 2025

Actor Harris Dickinson’s (Babygirl, Triangle of Sadness) thrilling directorial debut follows Mike, played with tragic charm and a visceral magnetism by Cannes prize-winner Frank Dillane. Slyly funny and imbued with a warm humanity, this propulsive portrait of life on the margins offers a raw, anarchic snapshot of a slow tumble into oblivion.

On the streets of London, Mike is hustling to get by. Roadside evangelizers won’t let him sleep in peace, his slippery friend won’t pay up the money he stole, and before long, he finds himself in trouble with the law. As he struggles to reintegrate into society, shuffling between gigs as a line cook and a trash collector, he must balance a newfound sense of community with his own itch for self-destruction.

"[Frank Dillane] is revelatory... imbuing Mike with both the kind of wily charisma that makes people want to rescue him, and a self-destructive volatility that keeps repelling such efforts."
Guy Lodge, Variety
"[Urchin] is engaging and sympathetically acted and layered with genuinely funny moments, mysterious and hallucinatory set-pieces, and challenges the notion of the haves who fear the contagious risk of coming into contact with the have-nots."
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian


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