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Adoration
directed by Atom Egoyan, 1960-; produced by Atom Egoyan, 1960-, Simone Urdl, fl. 1998 and Jennifer Weiss, fl. 2000, Serendipity Point Films, ARP Sélection, Ego Film Arts and Film Farm; performed by Devon Bostick, 1991-, Rachel Blanchard, 1976-, Scott Speedman, 1975- and Arsinée Khanjian, 1958- (New York, NY: Sony Pictures Classics, 2009), 1 hour 41 mins,
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What would you do if you found out your father may have been a terrorist? A high school boy writes a story for class that makes this claim. Is it true? Friends, family, teachers and internet chat-room partners start to wonder and worry. Now he must journey through a maze of family secrets to find the truth about h...
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directed by Atom Egoyan, 1960-; produced by Atom Egoyan, 1960-, Simone Urdl, fl. 1998 and Jennifer Weiss, fl. 2000, Serendipity Point Films, ARP Sélection, Ego Film Arts and Film Farm; performed by Devon Bostick, 1991-, Rachel Blanchard, 1976-, Scott Speedman, 1975- and Arsinée Khanjian, 1958- (New York, NY: Sony Pictures Classics, 2009), 1 hour 41 mins,
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What would you do if you found out your father may have been a terrorist? A high school boy writes a story for class that makes this claim. Is it true? Friends, family, teachers and internet chat-room partners start to wonder and worry. Now he must journey through a maze of family secrets to find the truth about his dead father. From Academy Award®-nominated director Atom Egoyan (1997, Best Director, The Sweet Hereafter) comes a story of a young...
What would you do if you found out your father may have been a terrorist? A high school boy writes a story for class that makes this claim. Is it true? Friends, family, teachers and internet chat-room partners start to wonder and worry. Now he must journey through a maze of family secrets to find the truth about his dead father. From Academy Award®-nominated director Atom Egoyan (1997, Best Director, The Sweet Hereafter) comes a story of a young man who must question everything he knows in order to learn who he is and who his father was. Adoration presents a world where there is no such thing as us versus them and the truth is never as simple as right and wrong.
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Devon Bostick, 1991-, Rachel Blanchard, 1976-, Scott Speedman, 1975-, Arsinée Khanjian, 1958-
Contributor
Paul Sarossy, 1963-, Atom Egoyan, 1960-, Simone Urdl, fl. 1998, Jennifer Weiss, fl. 2000, Serendipity Point Films, ARP Sélection, Ego Film Arts, Film Farm, Mychael Danna, 1958-
Author / Creator
Atom Egoyan, 1960-, Devon Bostick, 1991-, Rachel Blanchard, 1976-, Scott Speedman, 1975-, Arsinée Khanjian, 1958-
Date Published / Released
2008, 2009
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Topic / Theme
Orphans, Identity (Psychology), Teacher-student relationships, Homework, Simon, Rachel, Tom, Sabine
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Copyright © 2009 Sony Pictures Classics
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Cloud 9
directed by Andreas Dresen, 1963-; produced by Peter Rommel, 1956-, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Senator International and Peter Rommel Productions (Chicago, IL: Music Box Films, 2008), 1 hour 40 mins
Cloud 9 is the groundbreaking and lyrical story of a 67-year old married woman who rediscovers passion and her sexuality when she falls in love with a 76-year old man. Cloud 9 won an Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and the Best Director and Best Actress prizes at the 2009 German F...
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directed by Andreas Dresen, 1963-; produced by Peter Rommel, 1956-, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Senator International and Peter Rommel Productions (Chicago, IL: Music Box Films, 2008), 1 hour 40 mins
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Cloud 9 is the groundbreaking and lyrical story of a 67-year old married woman who rediscovers passion and her sexuality when she falls in love with a 76-year old man. Cloud 9 won an Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and the Best Director and Best Actress prizes at the 2009 German Film Awards.
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Contributor
Peter Rommel, 1956-, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Senator International, Peter Rommel Productions
Author / Creator
Andreas Dresen, 1963-
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Music Box Films
Topic / Theme
Sexual behavior, Adultery, Elderly people, Romantic relationships
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Copyright © 2008 Music Box Films
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Daniel Deronda, Episode 4
directed by Tom Hooper, 1972-; produced by Louis Marks, 1928-2010, British Broadcasting Corporation and WGBH Boston, in Daniel Deronda (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2002), 49 mins
Andrew Davies dramatisation of the George Eliot novel. Daniel learns the truth about his identity.
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directed by Tom Hooper, 1972-; produced by Louis Marks, 1928-2010, British Broadcasting Corporation and WGBH Boston, in Daniel Deronda (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2002), 49 mins
Description
Andrew Davies dramatisation of the George Eliot novel. Daniel learns the truth about his identity.
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Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Louis Marks, 1928-2010, British Broadcasting Corporation, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Tom Hooper, 1972-
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Daniel Deronda
Topic / Theme
Cultural identity, Societal roles, Parent-child relations, Jewish people, Upper-classes, Romantic relationships
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Copyright © 2002 BBC Worldwide
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An Education
written by Lynn Barber, 1944-; directed by Lone Scherfig, 1959-; produced by Finola Dwyer, fl. 1984 and Amanda Posey, 1966-, BBC Films, Finola Dwyer Productions, Wildgaze Films and Endgame Entertainment; performed by Carey Mulligan, 1985-, Peter Sarsgaard, 1971-, Alfred Molina, 1953- and Rosamund Pike, 1979- (New York, NY: Sony Pictures Classics, 2009), 1 hour 40 mins,
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From acclaimed writer Nick Hornby (ABOUT A BOY, HIGH FIDELITY) comes this inspired coming-of-age film Rolling Stone magazine calls "a miracle of a movie." When Jenny (Academy Award® and Golden Globe® nominee Carey Mulligan), a bright young school girl who longs for adulthood, meets David (Peter Sarsgaard), a das...
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written by Lynn Barber, 1944-; directed by Lone Scherfig, 1959-; produced by Finola Dwyer, fl. 1984 and Amanda Posey, 1966-, BBC Films, Finola Dwyer Productions, Wildgaze Films and Endgame Entertainment; performed by Carey Mulligan, 1985-, Peter Sarsgaard, 1971-, Alfred Molina, 1953- and Rosamund Pike, 1979- (New York, NY: Sony Pictures Classics, 2009), 1 hour 40 mins,
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From acclaimed writer Nick Hornby (ABOUT A BOY, HIGH FIDELITY) comes this inspired coming-of-age film Rolling Stone magazine calls "a miracle of a movie." When Jenny (Academy Award® and Golden Globe® nominee Carey Mulligan), a bright young school girl who longs for adulthood, meets David (Peter Sarsgaard), a dashing older man, he introduces her to his vibrant world of glamorous friends, chic jazz clubs and her own sexual awakening. Will she let...
From acclaimed writer Nick Hornby (ABOUT A BOY, HIGH FIDELITY) comes this inspired coming-of-age film Rolling Stone magazine calls "a miracle of a movie." When Jenny (Academy Award® and Golden Globe® nominee Carey Mulligan), a bright young school girl who longs for adulthood, meets David (Peter Sarsgaard), a dashing older man, he introduces her to his vibrant world of glamorous friends, chic jazz clubs and her own sexual awakening. Will she let this affair ruin her dreams of attending Oxford, as her headmistress (Emma Thompson) fears? This captivating film sparkles with the wit, charm and style of 1960s Britain.
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Carey Mulligan, 1985-, Peter Sarsgaard, 1971-, Alfred Molina, 1953-, Rosamund Pike, 1979-
Contributor
John de Borman, 1954-, Finola Dwyer, fl. 1984, Amanda Posey, 1966-, BBC Films, Finola Dwyer Productions, Wildgaze Films, Endgame Entertainment, Paul Englishby, 1970-
Author / Creator
Lone Scherfig, 1959-, Carey Mulligan, 1985-, Peter Sarsgaard, 1971-, Alfred Molina, 1953-, Rosamund Pike, 1979-, Lynn Barber, 1944-, Nick Hornby, 1957-
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Topic / Theme
Adolescence, Daughters, Parent-child relations, Romantic relationships, Jenny Mellor, David Goldman, Jack Mellor, Helen
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Copyright © 2009 Sony Pictures Classics
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Library Of African Cinema, Dôlè
directed by Imunga Ivanga, 1967-; produced by Jean-Jacques Hubert, 2001-, Direct et Différé and Ce.Na.Ci. (Production Company), in Library Of African Cinema (California Newsreel, 2001), 1 hour 17 mins
Dôlè offers a Gabonese perspective on the global crisis facing today's youth. With familial and societal structures crumbling, young people are increasingly thrown back for support on each other and an all-encompassing international pop culture. This film reveals that, whether in Libreville or in our own inner c...
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directed by Imunga Ivanga, 1967-; produced by Jean-Jacques Hubert, 2001-, Direct et Différé and Ce.Na.Ci. (Production Company), in Library Of African Cinema (California Newsreel, 2001), 1 hour 17 mins
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Dôlè offers a Gabonese perspective on the global crisis facing today's youth. With familial and societal structures crumbling, young people are increasingly thrown back for support on each other and an all-encompassing international pop culture. This film reveals that, whether in Libreville or in our own inner cities and suburbs the underlying causes of youthful disaffection can be remarkably similar. With Ça twiste à Poponguine, Dôlè provi...
Dôlè offers a Gabonese perspective on the global crisis facing today's youth. With familial and societal structures crumbling, young people are increasingly thrown back for support on each other and an all-encompassing international pop culture. This film reveals that, whether in Libreville or in our own inner cities and suburbs the underlying causes of youthful disaffection can be remarkably similar. With Ça twiste à Poponguine, Dôlè provides one of the most affectionate and affecting portraits of African youth poised precariously on the cusp of modernity. Winner of the first-place Gold Tanit at the 2000 Carthage Film Festival, It has already been widely compared to François Truffaut's iconic coming of age film -- a kind of "Le quatre cents coups" in Gabon.
Dôlè begins not with plot but with performance. On a rooftop overlooking the city, in a scene which could happen anywhere, a group of young men vent their frustrations in instantly recognizable rhythms. Performing only for themselves, they aggressively search for an identity through the universal patois of hip-hop. When they plot a robbery to obtain one of the necessary accoutrements of that lifestyle, what they call un ghettoblaster, one cannot help but wonder if the image is reflecting reality or has begun to determine the reality. This begs the question: What does it mean to be "real" if this is essentially a pose, one stance among many for approaching a particular reality?
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Jean-Jacques Hubert, 2001-, Direct et Différé, Ce.Na.Ci. (Production Company)
Author / Creator
Imunga Ivanga, 1967-
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
California Newsreel
Series
Library Of African Cinema
Topic / Theme
Economic conditions, Cliques and gangs, Inner city ghettos, Cultural adaptation, Age identity, Survival instinct
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2001 California Newsreel
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Me Without You
directed by Sandra Goldbacher, 1960-; produced by Dakota Films (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2001), 1 hour 41 mins
Two best friends grow up on the Isle of Wight and in Brighton in the 1970s and 1980s.
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directed by Sandra Goldbacher, 1960-; produced by Dakota Films (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2001), 1 hour 41 mins
Description
Two best friends grow up on the Isle of Wight and in Brighton in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Film
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Contributor
Dakota Films
Author / Creator
Sandra Goldbacher, 1960-
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
First Run Features
Topic / Theme
Female friends, Adolescence, Friendships
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2001 by First Run Features Inc.
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Monsieur Ibrahim
written by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 1960-; directed by François Dupeyron, 1950-2016; produced by Laurent Pétin, fl. 1986-2017 and Michèle Pétin, 1955-, ARP Sélection and France 3 Cinéma; performed by Omar Sharif, 1932-2015, Pierre Boulanger, 1987-, Gilbert Melki, 1958- and Isabelle Renauld, 1966- (New York, NY: Sony Pictures Classics, 2004), 1 hour 35 mins,
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During the early 1960's, Paris, like the much of Europe, was an explosion of life. As the old gave way to the new, everything was in flux and the city was filled with a energy that promised cultural shifts and social change. Against this background, in a working class neighborhood, two unlikely characters—a youn...
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written by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 1960-; directed by François Dupeyron, 1950-2016; produced by Laurent Pétin, fl. 1986-2017 and Michèle Pétin, 1955-, ARP Sélection and France 3 Cinéma; performed by Omar Sharif, 1932-2015, Pierre Boulanger, 1987-, Gilbert Melki, 1958- and Isabelle Renauld, 1966- (New York, NY: Sony Pictures Classics, 2004), 1 hour 35 mins,
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During the early 1960's, Paris, like the much of Europe, was an explosion of life. As the old gave way to the new, everything was in flux and the city was filled with a energy that promised cultural shifts and social change. Against this background, in a working class neighborhood, two unlikely characters—a young Jew and an elderly Muslim—begin a friendship. When we meet Momo (Pierre Boulanger), he is in effect an orphan even though he lives...
During the early 1960's, Paris, like the much of Europe, was an explosion of life. As the old gave way to the new, everything was in flux and the city was filled with a energy that promised cultural shifts and social change. Against this background, in a working class neighborhood, two unlikely characters—a young Jew and an elderly Muslim—begin a friendship. When we meet Momo (Pierre Boulanger), he is in effect an orphan even though he lives with his father, a man slowly retreating into a crippling depression. His only friends are the street whores who treat him with genuine affection. Momo buys his groceries at the neighborhood shop, a crowded dark space owned and run by Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a silent exotic looking man who sees and knows more than he lets on. After Momo is abandoned by his father, Ibrahim becomes the one grownup in Momo's life. Together they begin a journey that will change their lives forever.
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Omar Sharif, 1932-2015, Pierre Boulanger, 1987-, Gilbert Melki, 1958-, Isabelle Renauld, 1966-
Contributor
Rémy Chevrin, 1963-, Laurent Pétin, fl. 1986-2017, Michèle Pétin, 1955-, ARP Sélection, France 3 Cinéma
Author / Creator
François Dupeyron, 1950-2016, Omar Sharif, 1932-2015, Pierre Boulanger, 1987-, Gilbert Melki, 1958-, Isabelle Renauld, 1966-, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 1960-
Date Published / Released
2003, 2004
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Topic / Theme
Friendships, Adoption, Religious faiths, Adolescence, Monsieur Ibrahim Deneji, Moses Schmitt, Momo's father, Momo's mother, Jews
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Copyright © 2004 by Sony Pictures Classics
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Nurse. Fighter. Boy
directed by Charles Officer, fl. 2008; produced by Ingrid Veninger, 1970-, Cane Sugar Filmworks, pUNK FILMS and Eleven Thirteen (New York, NY: Film Movement, 2008), 1 hour 33 mins
Jude is a single mother who descends from a long line of Jamaican caregivers. Silence is a 'past his prime' boxer who fights illegally to survive. Ciel is a boy who delves into music, conjuring dreams for his mother. During the last week of summer, a late-night brawl finds the fighter in the nurse's care causing t...
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directed by Charles Officer, fl. 2008; produced by Ingrid Veninger, 1970-, Cane Sugar Filmworks, pUNK FILMS and Eleven Thirteen (New York, NY: Film Movement, 2008), 1 hour 33 mins
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Jude is a single mother who descends from a long line of Jamaican caregivers. Silence is a 'past his prime' boxer who fights illegally to survive. Ciel is a boy who delves into music, conjuring dreams for his mother. During the last week of summer, a late-night brawl finds the fighter in the nurse's care causing their three fates to be forever entwined.
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Performance
Contributor
Ingrid Veninger, 1970-, Cane Sugar Filmworks, pUNK FILMS, Eleven Thirteen
Author / Creator
Charles Officer, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Film Movement
Topic / Theme
Youth, Adolescence, Romance, Jamaican people
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008 by Film Movement
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Thumbsucker
directed by Mike Mills, 1966-; produced by Anthony Bregman, fl. 1994-2017 and Bob Stephenson, 1967-, Bob Yari Productions and This Is That Productions; performed by Tilda Swinton, 1960-, Vincent D'Onofrio, 1959- and Lou Taylor Pucci, 1985- (New York, NY: Sony Pictures Classics, 2005), 1 hour 36 mins,
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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' orthodo...
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directed by Mike Mills, 1966-; produced by Anthony Bregman, fl. 1994-2017 and Bob Stephenson, 1967-, Bob Yari Productions and This Is That Productions; performed by Tilda Swinton, 1960-, Vincent D'Onofrio, 1959- and Lou Taylor Pucci, 1985- (New York, NY: Sony Pictures Classics, 2005), 1 hour 36 mins,
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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 beginni...
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 Justin’s troubles, and that she is sometimes too busy dealing with her own doubts to help him. Audrey hides from these realities through an obsession with a TV heartthrob, Matt Schraam (BENJAMIN BRATT), whose TV character seems to have all the neat answers, but his real drug addicted self reveals messier truths to both her and Justin. Little brother Joel (CHASE OFFERLE) is mostly oblivious to the family’s dynamics, and thinks his troubled older brother is embarrassing. Joel provides comic relief with his lack of doubt in a family full of questions, yet his strong-mindedness may be misunderstood. Justin turns to others outside his family to help. His New Age orthodontist, Perry Lyman (KEANU REEVES), seems to mirror Justin’s ups and downs. They both try on different personas that hide their doubts and fears. Perry transforms into an EST/FORUM-style high achiever before winding up a washed-up mess who stops looking for disguises and easy answers, finding a strange kind of happiness in the process. At school, Mr. Geary (VINCE VAUGHN), Justin’s debate coach, initially tries to help. His alternately dominating and cripplingly insecure behavior is revealed as he attempts to live his life through his students. Striving to act as a peer to Justin, Mr. Geary eventually finds that he can no longer control him when Justin reaps great success, and their relationship crumbles. Justin’s heart belongs to another pretender, Rebecca (KELLI GARNER) who masks her insecurities about sex and relationships behind a cool demeanor. She seems adult beyond her years, but Justin learns the hard way that she is not able to face her fears. 'Thumbsucker' is an honest and funny look at the struggles of people who feel deeply flawed, both those in youth and middle age. They yearn to be anything but their real selves with their real fears and doubts. Instead, they want to be 'normal.' They look for magic answers to fix themselves – only to realize that they can’t be someone else, that 'normal' does not exist, and that their flaws are what make them human and l.
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Tilda Swinton, 1960-, Vincent D'Onofrio, 1959-, Lou Taylor Pucci, 1985-
Contributor
Anthony Bregman, fl. 1994-2017, Bob Stephenson, 1967-, Bob Yari Productions, This Is That Productions, Tim DeLaughter, 1965-
Author / Creator
Mike Mills, 1966-, Tilda Swinton, 1960-, Vincent D'Onofrio, 1959-, Lou Taylor Pucci, 1985-
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Topic / Theme
Adolescence, Romantic relationships, Audrey Cobb, Mike Cobb, Justin Cobb
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2005 by Sony Pictures Classics
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