Chumscrubber

Pros: Fine lead cast, some artistic direction and production, smart theme
Cons: Overworked premise, hard mixture of comedy and tragedy

The Chumscrubber (2005) Directed by: Arie Posin Written by: Arie Posin & Zac Stanford Starring: Jamie Bell, Glenn Close, Ralph Fiennes, Carrie-Anne Moss Upper-middle-class suburban dystopia and teen confusion have ...

Pros: Characters learn to communicate and survive in the surrealistic world of The Chumbscrubber.
Cons: None.

I. The Movie... Contrary to popular belief, The Chumscrubber is not an industrial cleaning product designed to scrub away hard to remove soap chum. Rather, The Cumscrubber is the first feature film by newcomers Arie Posin and Zac ...

Pros: Fiennes, invites virulent response
Cons: profanity aplenty, overall weirdness

Watching a movie with my mom can be a very interesting experience. If it's an action-packed film full of narrow escapes and violent encounters, we can bank on her letting out at least three or four screeches loud enough to rouse the whole neighborhood. ...

Pros: Quirky surreal black comedy with good acting and direction.
Cons: Sometimes it seemed too close to Donnie Darko.

The movies have taken us to many strange disaffected suburbs, and the one presented here is certainly near the top of the list. If you've been to where Donnie Darko grew up, or you've been to Ghost World or experienced an Ice Storm ...

Pros: There were some funny parts and some serious parts that made me think.
Cons: ...none really

My husband brought this movie home with a group of others from Hollywood video. I had never heard of it, but he read the reviews at Hollywood.com and said that it sounded funny. When I saw that Glenn Close and Rory Culkin were in it, I wanted to watch it ...

Pros: Well-written and acted
Cons: Not as unique as one may think at first

Chumscrubber is an entertaining film along the lines of Tadpole or Igby Goes Down with a touch of Desperate Housewives and Donnie Darko in which the worlds of teenagers and that of their parents seem to be separated to ...

Pros: Interesting ideas, good writing
Cons: This pales in comparison to better films

Arie Poser's directorial debut The Chumscrubber, while breaking no new ground here, is still worth a look for its cartoonish take on a tiresome genre, suburban dysfunction. Pictures in this genre range from the silly (The 'Burbs, and arguably some of ...