The Chumscrubber (2005)
The Chumscrubber is a movie set in one of those "everything's fine" movie suburbias where nothing ever IS.
It kicks off with a suicide that sets in motion a plan to get the dead kid's (who happened to be the former drug supplier to the rich and bored population of the local high school) stash of drugs. The budding delinquent in charge decides to kidnap a kid and threaten the kid's brother (dead kid's former best friend) until he's forced to retrieve the drugs for them.
This big storyline rather gets in the way of the moments of incisiveness in the script, such as the parent so careful not to invade her child's privacy that she doesn't even realize he's missing and the grieving mother trying to force everyone into her private pain by repeating the phrase "in no way whatsoever do I hold you responsible for [my son's] death." I liked those kind of peripheral touches that were woven throughout -- on the basis of those alone, this movie is worth seeing. But as a cohesive storytelling effort? It failed.
C+
It kicks off with a suicide that sets in motion a plan to get the dead kid's (who happened to be the former drug supplier to the rich and bored population of the local high school) stash of drugs. The budding delinquent in charge decides to kidnap a kid and threaten the kid's brother (dead kid's former best friend) until he's forced to retrieve the drugs for them.
This big storyline rather gets in the way of the moments of incisiveness in the script, such as the parent so careful not to invade her child's privacy that she doesn't even realize he's missing and the grieving mother trying to force everyone into her private pain by repeating the phrase "in no way whatsoever do I hold you responsible for [my son's] death." I liked those kind of peripheral touches that were woven throughout -- on the basis of those alone, this movie is worth seeing. But as a cohesive storytelling effort? It failed.
C+
posted by MeMe | 11:05 AM
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