Thumbsucker (2005)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Mike Mills

Writers: Mike Mills, Walter Kirn

Cinematographer: Joaquín Baca-Asay

Composer: Tim DeLaughter

Cast: Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kelli Garner, Keanu Reeves, Vince Vaughn

A directionless, oft confused 17-year-old, who still sucks his thumb in stressful situations, experiments with legal and illegal drugs, discovers sex, dabbles with success, and eventually finds himself, in Mills’s well made and consummately acted if slightly predictable and vaguely familiar adaptation of Walter Kirn’s novel. Iain.Stott