Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 109
Fresh: 77 | Rotten: 32
Though quirky coming-of-age themes are common in indie films, this one boasts a smart script and a great cast.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 8
Though quirky coming-of-age themes are common in indie films, this one boasts a smart script and a great cast.
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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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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 (Kelli Garner), a cute girl in his debate class with whom he is somewhat mutually infatuated. It isn't much better at home with his obnoxious younger brother Joel (Chase Offerle), his father, Mike (Vincent D'Onofrio), who is busy having a midlife
Sep 16, 2005 Wide
Jan 24, 2006
$1.1M
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (121) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (79) | Rotten (33) | DVD (10)
Unlike so many movies in which a character changes in order to propel the plot forward, this one stops to follow up on the consequences of those changes.
A tender but glib coming-of-age journey.
So no one would argue that Thumbsucker sucks. But the thing does seem just so indie-movie familiar.
Brave, funny leap into the abyss of adolescence.
Many films portray teens as Frankenstein monsters bolted together by peer pressure and prescription drugs. "Thumbsucker" bests most of them by avoiding fingers wagged in caution and addressing the opportunity costs of adolescence and adulthood.
So unexciting that it almost made me want to suck my thumb or whatever to get over sitting through such a heavy going and dull film.
Everything. Came. Together. Beautifully.
Here, adolescence is a pandemic condition, a metaphor for the endless human struggle to become comfortable in one's own skin, blemishes and all.
The result is sensitive, intelligent and deeply affecting.
Mills delivers here a rather original first feature, even though it follows the steps of other tales of teenage alienation.
Nowhere near as good as Mike Mills' follow up, Beginners, but Thumbsucker definitely plants the seeds of a budding auteur
December 11, 2011Super Reviewer
"You are not alone. You are not afraid. You don't need your thumb, and your thumb doesn't need you."Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb. REVIEWThumbsucker is the film that we nearly didn't get to see. First time director Mike
October 29, 2011
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