The Chumscrubber

The Chumscrubber

2005 · 108 min · EN · R · 6.5 (175 votes)
Dir. Arie Posin · Starring Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin, Glenn Close, Kathi Copeland, Rory Culkin · Music James Horner

Fear. Trust. Love.

ComedyDrama

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.

VIBE

A surreal and bleak dive into the self-absorbed, drug-addled lives of suburbanites. It's a darkly comedic, nihilistic look at childhood disillusionment and the hollowness beneath a pristine facade. Expect the unexpected.

surrealbleakdarkly comedicnihilisticsteadyA24-esquesurrealismdark comedysuburban ennuinarcissismchildhood disillusionmentdrug culture
suicidecaliforniaparent child relationshipsurrealsuburbparallel worldchild kidnapping
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