Thumbsucker
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- Synopsis
- A high-school senior finds that fate (and modern medicine) plays some interesting tricks with his personality in this dramatic comedy. Justin Conn (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a neurotic teenager who has a difficult time with his peers, especially Rebecca ......
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- Director(s)
- Mike Mills
- Distributor(s)
- Sony Classics
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 94 min.
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Mr. Pucci, emerging slowly from behind a stray lock of brown hair, plays Justin's ambiguous transformation with deft understatement. And Mike Mills, who wrote and directed, keeps the film from slipping either into melodrama or facile satire, the two traps into which this genre is most apt to fall.Read the full review
The movie contains many of the usual ingredients of teenage suburban angst tragicomedies, but writer-director Mike Mills, who began with a novel by Walter Kirn, uses actors who can riff.Read the full review
Pucci is an actor to watch: He rides this spellbinder without softening the truths that plague the thumbsucker in all of us.Read the full review
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Interview: Mike Mills on "Beautiful Losers"
07/30/08 He's designed scarves for Marc Jacobs and the iconic cover of Air's "Moon Safari" album, directed music videos for Moby, Pulp and Blonde Redhead, helmed two features to date (the Sundance hit "Thumbsucker" and the SXSW doc "Does Your Soul Have a Cold?"), had graphic art exhibitions and commissioned ad campaigns all around the globe, and played with members of Cibo Matto and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in the short-lived '90s East Village supergroup Butter 08. | Independent Film Channel (IFC)
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