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Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 10-09-2005, 02:27 AM:

For once, an film that would otherwise have had to run on the supposed trippy passing of late teenage years gets a boost from experienced character actors. Mike Mills has to be very thankful for Vincent D'Onofrio, Tilda Swinton, Benjamin Bratt and Vince Vaughn. Without these minds behind his characters, Thumbsucker wouldn't have the dead-on track through Lou Pucci's troubled 17-year-old existence. Mild humor, moderately heavy events, high tension on whether their emotional problems will be cured by the final curtain, Thumbsucker is everything Mills could have wanted out of this production (which took years to get off the ground). Even Keanu Reeves brings the appropriate character to Pucci's spacey orthodondist in an unexpected good use of everything Reeves learned on the set of The Matrix [Smile]

The message of the film gets spelled out especially well in the soundtrack by the Polyphonic Spree and Elliot Smith. The flow of life through this film is refreshing, even if it doesn't get a lot of laughs. The spirit is there, everyone seems enveloped in the film.

Landmark's Uptown, Minneapolis
SRD
Flicker, poor bulb focus and a dilapidated screen. I'm seeing a movie at Uptown [Roll Eyes]