Thumbsucker

'Thumbsucker', a film about a boy trying to break his habit of sucking his thumb

Thumbsucker movie trailer - starring Keanu Reeves, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tilda Swinton, Benjamin Bratt, Lou Taylor Pucci, Chase Offerle. Directed by Mike Mills. Theatrical Release Date: 9/16/2005 Genre: Drama Rating: R

Thumbsucker -- Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.

Hypnosis may be the only thing to stop Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci) from sucking his thumb.

Thumbsucker -- MovieMaze.de - Trailer (Quicktime)

It's not easy growing up, no matter what age you are... Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci) still sucks his thumb at 17. He wants to stop and knows that his thumbsucking is disrupting his family, his love life and his identity. The only thing that changes his behavior is hypnosis therapy administered by his 'guru' orthodontist. But while Justin felt this would solve all his problems and he would finally be 'normal,' his troubles were really just beginning. Thumbsucking was only a symptom of a deep-seated fear: that he and his father aren't good enough for his mother, and that she would leave them. Thumbsucking was the only way to soothe this fear. Once that is gone Justin spirals into manic behavior, is diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin, which becomes a substitute for his thumb. When the high of the prescription drugs and a newfound success at school crash, Justin turns to pot and sex to replace his thumb. His father Mike (Vincent D'Onofrio) is himself shadowed by the sad twists of youth: a broken college football career apparently sidelined by a knee injury. In many ways Mike feels like a teenager, yet he finds himself in his early 40s with his eldest son still sucking his thumb as he's heading to college and his wife seeming to drift away. Mike hides his fears and disappointments with tough behavior - but that trick is running dry. He is growing out of the lies and denials that got him from college to the present. Did he ever really want to be a jock? Is that a false self that he has hidden in for all these years and doesn?t know how to evolve out of? His wife Audrey (Tilda Swinton) wonders how she could possibly be 'grown up' with a son going to college. She seems to be asking 'How did I get here?' and 'Is this all there is?' In her early 40s, she is, like Justin, struggling to find out who she is and to accept her shortcomings. As a mother she knows that she doesn't have all the answers to Ju

Thumbsucker -- MyMovies.Net - Trailer (Flash / WM9)

Thumbsucker -- Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.

Thumbsucker -- ZuGuide.com - Trailer (Flash)

Thumbsucker -- Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.