Thumbsucker
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- Synopsis
- Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci) is 17, and he still sucks his thumb. Even though it worries his mother (Tilda Swinton), irritates his father (Vincent D'Onofrio), and threatens his prospects with debate team crush Rebecca (Kelli Garner), he can't stop sucking ......
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- Starring
- Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Benjamin Bratt
- Director(s)
- Mike Mills
- Distributor(s)
- Sony Classics
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 95 min.
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The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites
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
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
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
Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites
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
