Thumbsucker
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Mon 2 January 2006 // 21:15
Tue 3 January 2006 // 21:15
Wed 4 January 2006 // 21:15
Thu 5 January 2006 // 21:30
Mills / 2005 / USA / 96 min / 35mm / cert 15
(Mon 2nd-Thu 5th / 9pm / £2)
From dropout suburban air guitar hedonism, through Buddism, cyber heroism, and devil-dancing detective work, Keanu Reeves here add another vocational stereotype to his C.V. - hippie orthodontist. In this film, chiefly concerned with issues surrounding addiction, obsession, and competing images of reality, he stars alongside Tilda Swinton and newcomer Lou Pucci, who plays a distracted and insecure 17 year old whose father is desperate to make a man out of his seemingly pathetic offspring. Keanu performs therapy on the boy, setting off the first of the film's many massive character arcs. Employing an excellent supporting cast and turgid with cultural references, this film has multiple tones, many funny moments and great attention to detail.
(Mon 2nd-Thu 5th / 9pm / £2)
From dropout suburban air guitar hedonism, through Buddism, cyber heroism, and devil-dancing detective work, Keanu Reeves here add another vocational stereotype to his C.V. - hippie orthodontist. In this film, chiefly concerned with issues surrounding addiction, obsession, and competing images of reality, he stars alongside Tilda Swinton and newcomer Lou Pucci, who plays a distracted and insecure 17 year old whose father is desperate to make a man out of his seemingly pathetic offspring. Keanu performs therapy on the boy, setting off the first of the film's many massive character arcs. Employing an excellent supporting cast and turgid with cultural references, this film has multiple tones, many funny moments and great attention to detail.