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Who’s in it: Lou Pucci, Vincent D’Onofrio, Tilda Swinton, Keanu Reeves.
What it’s about: A suburban angst movie about a depressed, awkward high school senior named Justin (Pucci) who goes from thumb-sucking to taking Ritalin to smoking pot. His inattentive parents (D’Onofrio and Swinton) end up liking the mellow, pre-Ritalin Justin the best, but they all learn to get along.
Worth watching? ***
” ‘Thumbsucker’ works, in part, due to the strength of Lou Pucci’s superb lead performance and, in part, because however derivative the movie may be, none of its predecessors featured Keanu Reeves playing a Zen dentist who possesses the answers to life’s big questions.”
