Yes, a movie about a high school
senior (newcomer Lou Taylor Pucci) who still sucks his thumb. There are some
good parts to this movie, based on a novel by Walter Kirn (Up in the Air), especially the parents (Vincent D’Onofrio and Tilda
Swinton), who I think I’d have preferred as the main subjects. I preferred the
family dynamics to the overly mechanistic midsection that unintentionally plays
like a cautionary TV movie about drugs. The perky Polyphonic Spree song
highlighted on the soundtrack unhelpfully emphasizes the twee elements of the
story. Keanu Reeves (in a role he was born to play) as the boy’s
orthodontist-hypnotist made me laugh (he tells him to visualize his “power
animal” instead of sucking his thumb) but was pretty silly in terms of the
overall story. Vince Vaughn as the hip debate-team coach is better.
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