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The Chumscrubber

2005 · 108 min

A surreal, darkly comic descent into suburban alienation, where grief and apathy collide with absurd violence and hollow self-absorption.

Directed by
Arie Posin
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Tagline
Meet Generation Rx.
Overview
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get through their days.

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Directed by
Arie Posin
Genres
Comedy, Drama
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • grief
  • family
  • addiction
  • identity
Places
  • suburbs
  • small town
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror3
Humour6
Realism6
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Arie Posin
Written by
Arie Posin, Zac Stanford
Starring
Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin, Glenn Close, Kathi Copeland, Rory Culkin, Thomas Curtis, Tim DeKay
Music
James Horner
Cinematography
Lawrence Sher
Runtime
108 min
Country
United States of America, Germany, Canada
Languages
English

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