The Chumscrubber
The Chumscrubber is a 2005 AmericanGerman comedydrama film, directed by Arie Posin, starring an ensemble cast led by Jamie Bell. The plot, written by Posin and Zac Stanford, focuses on the chain of events that follow the suicide of a teenage drug dealer in an idealistic but superficial town. Some of the themes addressed in the film are the lack of communication between teenagers and their parents and the inauthenticity of suburbia. The titular Chumscrubber is a character in a fictional video game that represents the town and its inhabitants.
Troy Johnson Josh Janowicz, the supplier of prescription drugs to fellow high school students in the fictional southern California town of Hillside, commits suicide. Troys best friend Dean Stiffle Jamie Bell, is prescribed more antidepressants by his psychiatrist father Bill William Fichtner after discovering the body. When Dean returns to school, he is antagonized by drug dealers Billy Justin Chatwin and Lee Lou Taylor Pucci, who were supplied by Troy. Their friend, Crystal Falls Camilla Belle, flirts with Dean, but he soon realizes that her true intentions are for Dean to retrieve the remaining drugs in Troys home and refuses to cooperate. To force Dean to procure the drugs, Billy and Lee plan to kidnap Deans brother, Charlie Rory Culkin, as a ransom, but they end up kidnapping another boy named Charlie Bratley Thomas Curtis instead.The kidnappers hold Charlie Bratley whose parents are unaware that he is missing overnight at Crystals home. Dean eventually agrees to go to Troys house to find the drugs. Upon delivery, Billy discovers that the bag doesnt contain the prescription drugs and starts a fight with Dean, leading to Deans arrest. While trying to explain everything to Officer Lou Bratley John Heard, Charlies father, Dean reveals that his brother Charlie replaced the drugs with a bag of the vitamins that their mother Allie Allison Janney sells. Neither Officer Bratley nor Deans father believes his story, but he is released, whereupon his father increases his dosage of antidepressants. Meanwhile, Charlie Stiffle crushes the real drugs and puts them into a casserole that his mother made for Troys memorial. ........
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