Author: Lou Taylor Pucci

Brand: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Format: AC-3

Release Date: 01-24-2006

Details: A sterling cast--including Vince Vaughn, Keanu Reeves, Vincent D'Onofrio, and especially Tilda Swinton--lifts this coming-of-age story above the norm. Justin (Lou Pucci, Personal Velocity ) is 17, yet he still sucks his thumb. Depressed, he frets that his parents (D'Onofrio, Full Metal Jacket , and Swinton, Orlando ) are going to split up, that he has no focus in life, and that the girl he longs for can never love him--until his orthodontist (Reeves, The Matrix ) hypnotizes Justin into quitting his thumbsucking, and a questionable diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder results in medication that launches him into a wave of over-achievement. The script, though it has some clever flourishes, never lifts beyond typical adolescent turmoil, but thanks to wonderfully vivid and multi-layered performances (including Vaughn, Wedding Crashers , as a debate teacher with hair issues), the movie never flags. Swinton also executive-produced the movie; she clearly saw in this suburban mother a character she could invest with as much emotion and intensity as the angel Gabriel ( Constantine ) or the White Witch of Narnia ( The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ). It's rich, intricate acting, never showy, yet mesmerizing. Thumbsucker also features Benjamin Bratt ( Pinero ) and Kelli Garner ( Man of the House ). --Bret Fetzer

UPC: 043396114821

EAN: 9781404986985

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: New