The Chumscrubber
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Arie Posin
Jamie Bell
Glenn Close
William Fichtner
Rita Wilson
Justin Chatwin
Film Details
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Synopsis
Dean Stiffle knows the score. Hillside--a beautiful community in Anywhere, USA--may look like a postcard from the frontlines of the American Dream, but teenage Dean knows better. When Troy, Dean's best friend and the town's leading drug dealer, hangs himself in his bedroom his death throws the community's carefully maintained psychotherapeutic balance into disarray. At school, in an effort to get their hands on Troy's stash, Dean's classmates Billy, Crystal, and Lee plot a kidnapping scheme: they'll abduct Dean's younger brother, Charlie, and hold him for ransom for Dean retrieving Troy's pills. Only, the hapless gang kidnaps the wrong boys, snatching Charlie Bratley instead. Son of divorced parents--police officer Lou Bratley, and interior decorator--Charlie's disappearance goes unnoticed by his mother, who is too consumed with the planning of her elaborate second wedding to town mayor Michael Ebbs, to realize her son has gone missing. As the teens play out their botched kidnapping, Troy's devastated mother plans a memorial service, and Terri and Michael prepare for their wedding, we realize that the kids and adults of Hillside live entirely separately lives--like two opposing camps. All they share is an easy-fix culture that holds out the promise of panaceas they believe will make them happy--be it do-it-yourself mental healthcare, vitamin supplement shakes, an Ivy League acceptance, the perfect body, a fairy tale wedding, self-help books, or New Age mysticism. It is up to our affectless antihero Dean to shrug off his cloak of psychic invisibility and decide both whether and now to negotiate these crooked worlds.
Director
Arie Posin
Cast
Jamie Bell
Glenn Close
William Fichtner
Rita Wilson
Justin Chatwin
Allison Janney
Tim Dekay
Thomas Curtis
Lauren Holly
Camilla Belle
John Heard
Josh Janowicz
Caroline Goodall
Richard Gleason
Carrie-anne Moss
Rory Culkin
Ralph Fiennes
Lou Taylor Pucci
Jason Isaacs
Crew
Lawrence Bender
Michael Beugg
Michael Beugg
Susanne Bohnet
Amy Britt
Peter A Brown
Lee Clay
Anya Colloff
Bonnie Curtis
Cas Donovan
Chris Douridas
Mary Claire Hannan
Manfred Heid
Michael Helfand
Shawn Holden
James Horner
Gerd Koechlin
Josef Lautenschlager
Philip Levinson
Barbara Long
Maria Nay
Patti Podesta
Arie Posin
William S. Scharf
Arthur P Schmidt
Lawrence Sher
Lawrence Sher
Zac Stanford
Zac Stanford
Christopher Tandon
Andreas Thiesmeyer
Bob Yari
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Limited Release in United States August 5, 2005
Released in United States January 2005
Released in United States March 2005
Released in United States November 11, 2005
Released in United States on Video January 10, 2006
Released in United States Summer August 5, 2005
Shown at South by Southwest Film Festival March 11-19, 2005.
Feature directorial debut for Arie Posin.
Released in United States January 2005 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Premiere) January 20-30, 2005.)
Released in United States on Video January 10, 2006
Released in United States March 2005 (Shown at South by Southwest Film Festival March 11-19, 2005.)
Limited Release in United States August 5, 2005
Released in United States Summer August 5, 2005
Released in United States November 11, 2005 (Los Angeles)
