The Chumscrubber

The Chumscrubber

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The Chumscrubber

Allison Janney, Rory Culkin, Ralph Fiennes, John Heard, Rita Wilson

Dean's best friend Troy is the point where it all starts. He has connections to happy pills. But when Troy kills himself, bored with the meaninglessness of life in a materialistic, completely fabricat...( read more  read more... )ed California suburb, his usual buyers don't stop wanting the drugs.

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  • March 19, 2009
    I hate movies like this. Movies that try to analyze teenage angst as a result of poor parenting and the drab, artificiality of suburban life. What The Chumscrubber tries to do is go the Donnie Darko route, only to end up with delivering superficial, cookie-cutter ideas about te...( read more)en rebellion.
    Jamie Bell plays a loser teen who relies on drugs to feel good about himself. His parents try to understand him, but they do all the wrong things, because quite simply, parents just don't get their children.
    I guess Jamie Bell delivers a good performance, since he's in almost every scene, and is able to look consistently depressed through the entire ordeal. Maybe he really was, having realized the movie he just signed on for.
  • December 29, 2008
    I thought this was a very funny and truthful movie dat i think every1 shud watch once. PARENTS especially!!!!
  • July 22, 2008
    prety neat dark comedy though I would have liked it alot more if it was a little darker. Think donnie darko but lighter and you pretty much get the chumscrubber.
  • May 5, 2008
    wtf. how is this movie good? who knows but its damn splendid.
  • January 18, 2008
    A very nice surprise. Extremely intriguing and intelligent plot as well as complex and interesting characters. Has both humor and tragedy, cleverly brought together and it could take a second watch to catch it all. The teen cast, which by the way doesn't make it a teen flick at a...( read more)ll, does a very good job and Glenn Close and Ralph Fiennes, playing secondary characters, are definitely an extra to this very well made and suprisingly enjoyable film.
  • December 29, 2009
    not sure what i think of this film, its very odd.
  • December 5, 2009
    Really something different. I kind of dig it.
  • December 4, 2009
    It is hard to tell who is more messed up in this movie the parents or the kids. All of the characters are screwed up in one way or another in this film. There are a lot of good scenes and some interesting characters in this film but the ending is unsatisfactory. I can not quite r...( read more)ecommend this one.
  • November 26, 2009
    This small gem came out around the same time as the inexplicably hailed-by critics "Thumbsucker". I felt that movie had great acting but was too safe and predictable. This one has great acting as well, but is more dense and attempts something new and different within the coming o...( read more)f age genre. It does not all work or come together as a whole, but it's interesting to watch, and I really enjoyed the dolphin thing. Some of the story strands are barely visible, making some of the characters hardly register (Lou Taylor Pucci's character especially), but the acting from everyone is solid. I am glad the filmmakers went an odd route and mostly succeed.
  • November 15, 2009
    all though it was weird in parts I really enjoyed this movie kept me wanting to watch the whole way through. I know all the adults were all the celebrities in the movie but it was the teenagers parts that were the most entertaining to watch Jamie Bell was very good and proves hes...( read more) not the faggy dancing kid from Billy Elliot anymore.

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