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The Chumscrubber premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2005 and was released theatrically on August 26, 2005. An accompanying soundtrack, composed mostly by James Horner, was released on October 18, 2005.
The Chumscrubber starts out with Troy, a normal teenager who supplies "feel good" pills to everyone in his high school (this way he spreads happiness all around). But when his friend Dean pays him a visit, Dean discovers Troy has hanged himself in his bedroom during one of his mother's pool parties.
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Troy Johnson, the supplier of prescription drugs to fellow high school students in the fictional southern California town of Hillside, commits suicide. Troy's best friend Dean finds his dead body but does not show any emotion about the loss of his friend. Dean is prescribed antidepressants by his psychiatrist father Bill to help "even him out". Whe...
The title of the film refers to a video game character, "The Chumscrubber", who helps his friends to survive in a superficial world by keeping things authentic, and is portrayed as a post-apocalyptic hero, carrying his severed head in his hand as he fights the forces of evil. The Chumscrubber's world was intended to be a reflection of the Hillside ...
While working at a Hollywood talent agency Arie Posin had been writing scripts for 10 years, "trying to break in[to]" the film industry, when he decided that he would rather be a director than a screenwriter. Posin asked writer Zac Stanford to write the screenplay for The Chumscrubber based on his idea. Because they collaborated on the story, Posin...
Box office
The Chumscrubber premiered on January 25, 2005 at the Sundance Film Festival. It went on to be shown at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival in June 2005, where it won the Audience Award. The film was released theatrically in the United States on August 5, 2005, playing in 28 theaters. It earned US$28,548 on its opening weekend, ranking 59th at the box office. It closed after two weeks in release with a total domestic gross of $52,597. The film's highest-grossing international releases...
Critical response
, on Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 37% based reviews from 60 critics, with an average rating of 4.95 out of 10. The site's critical consensus states "This derivative poke at suburbia falls short of delivering a scathing indictment of upper middle-class disconnect." On Metacriticit has a score of 41 out of 100 on based on reviews from 12 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film 1 star out of 5, describing it as "an a...
Home media
The film was released on DVD in Region 1 on January 10, 2006. The special features included on the disc are an audio commentary from Arie Posin, a 12-minute "making-of" featurette, and 10 deleted and extended scenes.
The film's original score was composed by James Horner. Though Horner's previous work comprised mostly high-budget studio films - including Titanic (1997), Braveheart (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), and Apollo 13 (1995) - producer Bonnie Curtis approached him to score The Chumscrubberbecause "You never know until you ask." Horner agreed after see...
Web site: Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. The Chumscrubber. Deming, Mark.Web site: CHUMSCRUBBER duo Arie Posin and Bonnie Curtis chat up Quint. . August 18, 2005. December 30, 2009.Web site: The Chumscrubber. WritingStudio.co.za. January 2, 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110721203635/http://www.writingstudio.co.za/page1049.html. July 21, 2011.Web site: The Chumscrubber—Nathan Baran interviews director Arie Posin . Hybrid Magazine . Baran . Nathan. August 2005 . December 30, 2009.- Lawrence Sher
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- Arie Posin
- Zac Stanford
"The Chumscrubber" is a surreal cautionary tale about an alienated youth forced to confront the disconnect between parents and teenagers in suburbia, rendered with a razor's edge balance of comedy and drama.
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The Chumscrubber. After a friend who sells prescription medication is killed, Dean (Jamie Bell) is confronted by Billy (Justin Chatwin), the high-school drug dealer, who demands he hand over the...
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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 adults because he knows they won’t care.
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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 adults because he knows they won't care.
