Blurb Movie Reviews - 'Chumscrubber'

This is a unique little movie. It's kind of like "Desperate Housewives' meets 'Donnie Darko'. It is the story of a community of people living in suburbia and how their lives touch each other through fate.

From IMDB:

'The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle (Jamie Bell) finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care.

Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get
themselves through the day.

After Troy's death, local drug dealers (Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin, Lou Taylor Pucci) at the school run out of their stash.

They convince Dean to get Troy's stash or they are going to kill his brother that they kidnapped, but they grabbed the wrong kid.'

I am really blown away by Jamie Bell I saw him in 'Undertow' and like his work. He really makes you identify with the character and is totally believable. It will be interesting to see what kind of future projects he will do.

I guess he was the Billy Elliot kid, but I never saw that one. He is at that point where, as he ages, he is either going to turn out uber-hubba hubba, or inversely, Abe Vigoda-ish. We'll see.

What is best about this movie is the notion that our action and fate, bring about results we would never imagine. Good point.

Although, the computer game, 'Chumscrubber', that is supposed to be an allegory for the film, fits wonkily in the course of the story.

They should have either embedded it more in to the story, or removed completely all together.