Aside from satiating my Keanu lust, this was actually quite a good film. I've heard it compared to American Beauty about nine hundred thousand times. Let me tell you why this is not American Beauty (a movie I like and own on DVD,) and in fact, is nothing like American Beauty: The characters in Thumbsucker were fucked up, but in a way I found to be refreshingly realistic. The characters in American Beauty were just fucked.

For instance, who do you know that would stand around for an hour, filming garbage floating down the street? American Beauty was great and all, but I would never want to make friends with any of the crazies in that film. But I'd love to have Vince Vaughn and Benjamin Bratt and Keanu Reeves as quirky little supporting character roles in the story of my life.