"The Chumscrubber" smugly heaps on half-baked ideas about media violence, the homogeneity of suburbia and the disintegration of the American family. Webster's defines "chum" as "animal or vegetable ...

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the ...

Never mind Tolstoy — all unhappy families are alike in Arie Posin’s suburban-angst drama “The Chumscrubber.” Set in the sort of middle-of-nowhere planned community that could be anywhere, the families ...

Hillside -a beautiful community in Anywhere, USA - may look like a snapshot of the America Dream but teenager Dean (Jamie Bell) knows better. The Chumscrubber is a surreal cautionary tale about ...

"The Chumscrubber" smugly heaps on half-baked ideas about media violence, the homogeneity of suburbia and the disintegration of the American family. Webster's defines "chum" as "animal or vegetable ...

Hillsdale is an affluent, generic suburb somewhere in the US. Which means that it looks harmless enough, but that danger and darkness lurk below the surface. Dean Stiffle knows this. A bright, ...

The Chumscrubber: At least it has to be better than its name, right? Sadly, no. The feature debut of writer Zac Stanford and director Arie Posin, The Chumscrubber has seemingly been assembled by cross ...

Kids do delinquent things while their parents act like children in “The Chumscrubber.” It’s a visually impressive but emotionally tin-eared trawl over that oft-scraped indie film territory, the ...

Arie Posin's The Chumscrubber is a satire of sorts on the inanity of middle-class suburban life. It's evidently based on the same southern California incident that was treated in docudrama style a ...

If Quentin Tarantino spawned a legion of talky Pulp Fiction knockoffs with neither the pop vitality nor storytelling savvy of his creations, it looks like the cult hit Donnie Darko might, a dozen ...

Jamie Bell is a high school loner named Dean Stiffle. His only real friend, and not even that good a friend, Troy (Josh Janowicz) commits suicide at the start of the film. As Dean tries to deal with ...