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Overview

User Rating:
7.1/10   9,450 votes
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Director:
Arie Posin
Writers:
Arie Posin (story)
Zac Stanford (screenplay)
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Release Date:
25 August 2005 (Greece) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
Meet Generation Rx
Plot:
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jamie Bell ... Dean

Camilla Belle ... Crystal

Justin Chatwin ... Billy

Glenn Close ... Carrie Johnson
Kathi Copeland ... Parent #1 (as Kathy Copeland)

Rory Culkin ... Charlie Stiffle
Thomas Curtis ... Charlie Bratley

Tim DeKay ... Mr. Peck
David Ellison ... Student #1 (as David Ellsion)

William Fichtner ... Mr. Bill Stiffle

Ralph Fiennes ... Mayor Michael Ebbs

Richard Gleason ... Parent #2

Caroline Goodall ... Mrs. Parker

John Heard ... Officer Lou Bratley
Susan Hegarty ... Aide to Mayor Ebbs
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Glück in kleinen Dosen (Germany)
Untitled Arie Posin Project (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language, violent content, drug material and some sexuality.
Runtime:
108 min
Country:
USA | Germany
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Filming Locations:
Calabasas, California, USA more

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Continuity: When Dean and Crystal are talking in the lunch line, the same female extra walks by twice in only a few seconds. more
Quotes:
Mr. Parker: Those kids again, Lee?
Lee: We're doing a group project.
Mr. Parker: With them, Lee? You think they care what grades you get?
Lee: Mom...
Mr. Parker: Look, son, you let your grades go now, maybe you don't get into a top tier school.
Lee: Yeah.
Mr. Parker: You don't get into a top tier school, maybe you settle for a second-rate job.Maybe you don't have the life you want. Maybe each and every day you wake up and wanna crawl back into bed and tell the world to go to hell.
Mrs. Parker: We're just saying, you've worked too hard to blow it in your last year.
Mr. Parker: We've all worked hard together.
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Soundtrack:
Our House more

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42 out of 63 people found the following comment useful.
Austin Movie Show review, 6 August 2005
10/10
Author: leilapostgrad from Austin, TX

Suburbia pops up on the screen, one house at a time, and it's the most beautiful and peaceful neighborhood you've ever seen… until five minutes later when Dean (Jamie Bell) walks into a room and finds his best friend's dead body hanging by a rope. Chumscrubber writer/director Arie Posin's illustration of suburbia and alienation is as heart breaking as it is hilarious. Kids bury emotion under Prozac, Zantacs, Ritalin, and any other "happiness pills" they can find, while their parents drown their sorrows in one glass of wine after another. In this surreal depiction of life in the 'burbs, every individual is completely self-absorbed and numb to the outside world. A child is kidnapped and his parents never even realize it! So why did I laugh so much? Because every moment of Chumscrubber is either painfully shocking or absurdly hilarious. Posin has created a world where people are completely consumed with drugs, appearances, and "top-tier schools," and the brilliance of it is that he actually makes you want to go back and visit again. And the soundtrack (Placebo, Snow Patrol, The Like) kicks ass!!!

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