The Chumscrubber
The movie focuses on the chain of events that follow the suicide of a teenage drug dealer in an idealistic but superficial town. After his death, three local teens want what's left of his stash of pills and they kidnap a little kid, only to know that it's a wrong move.
28 October 1963, Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA
9 January 1983, USA
2 December 1981, Orlando, Florida, USA
31 October 1982, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
22 December 1962, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
20 April 1991
6 June 1963, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
2 October 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 July 1989, New York City, New York, USA
13 November 1959, London, England, UK
April 29, 2009
Whether the good performances, or sheer twisted attitude it presents to the same old formula, I enjoyed it, and the story.
June 08, 2007
Despite the top-drawer cast assembled for his debut feature, the director Arie Posin's account of emotional dislocation in the 'burbs is stymied by a fatally uneven tone and a growing suspicion that we've been down this road many, many times before.
September 26, 2005
The story of the film: Studio money chasing after the cult-film audience and getting all the superficial elements right while missing the spirit entirely. It's the cinematic equivalent of Candlebox.
August 08, 2005
There are some very good performances and some strong writing.
November 10, 2005
An impassioned and occasionally mesmerizing first effort that's at once messier, more complex and more ambitious than many recent suburban dystopias.
August 05, 2005
It's neither funny nor sad, and it's filled with cheats, phony come-ons and red herrings.
September 09, 2005
An appallingly clumsy and stupid take on drugs, kidnapping and suicide in suburbia.
June 08, 2007
It's a surreal, offbeat comedy where the kidnappers are hopelessly inept while Bell feels hopelessly at sea.
June 07, 2007
Much like its characters: decorative, entertaining and emotionally empty.
June 08, 2007
Sadly, despite Bell's eye-catching performance and Glenn Close's disturbing Stepford Wife portrayal, I found this messy movie as self-absorbed as most of its characters.
