Thumbsucker

Now this is one movie I've been waiting to see for sometime. Thumbsucker and Chumscrubber were two movies that I was really pining to see but never got to because they didn't make it to me. I'd have to say that this movie was pretty good, just like The Chumscrubber. You have a story about a boy,Lou Taylor Pucci, who sucks his thumb. This may not sound so weird until you learn his age, 17. So people are trying to make his stop and the only person that seems to have an effect on this is his dentist, Keanu Reeves. His mother, Tilda Swinton, is a nurse at a celebrity drug rehab place where she seemingly has a crush on an actor, Benjamin Bratt. His father, Vincent D'Onofrio is pretty distant and doesn't know how to relate to his son. This movie reminded me a lot of A Clockwork Orange. In both movies you have a teenager that has a pretty serious problem. So serious that they are put through 'hell' to cure them of their social disease. Then, after everything is said and done, we find out that maybe they never really were messed up and everything they went through might not have been necessary. I assure you this is nothing like Kubrick's classic in terms of content, however, I would still highly recommend seeing this film.