First time director Arie Posin takes us directly into the heart of darkness that is suburban America in Chumscrubber.
Set in the idyllic middle class suburb of Hillside Dean-Jamie Bell finds his best friend and local drug dealer Troy has hanged himself.
He doesn\'t inform Troy\'s mother Glen Close assuming she doesn\'t care enough.
Desperate for the drugs the bad kids Justin Chatwin, Camilla Belle, and Thumbsucker\'s Lou Taylor Pucci decide to kidnap Dean\'s younger brother in exchange for the stash in Troy\'s room.
But they grab the wrong kid who goes missing but his mother is oblivious to this as she is caught up in the fervor of organising her second marriage to Mayor Michael Ebb- Rafe Fiennes.
Chumscrubber is a smart and imaginative take on the divide between adolescents and adults in our consumer obsessed world. First time screen writer Zac Stanford injects new life to this much traversed cinematic terrain.
Posin has gathered an exceptional ensemble cast in which Jaimie Bell embodies the real issues of neglected youth and Glenn Close and Rafe Fiennes play their roles to the hilt as the absurd self obsessed adults.
The omni present symbol of the headless video game character Chumscrubber serves as the perfect metaphor for the suburban lifestyle in which everyone has lost their heads and their way.
