Thumbsucker

Resource Information

The work Thumbsucker represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Oshkosh Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Thumbsucker

Statement of responsibility

a Sony Pictures Classics release ; Bob Yari Productions presents a This is That, Cinema-Go-Go production in association with Bull's Eye Entertainment

Contributor

• Bob Yari Productions
• Bull's Eye Entertainment
• Cinema-Go-Go (Firm)
• Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
• This is That (Firm)
• Bratt, Benjamin, 1963-
• D'Onofrio, Vincent
• Garner, Kelli
• Kirn, Walter, 1962-
• Mills, Mike, 1966-
• Pucci, Lou Taylor, 1985-
• Reeves, Keanu
• Swinton, Tilda
• Vaughn, Vince

Subject

• Film adaptations
• Finger sucking
• Finger sucking -- Drama
• Teenagers
• Teenagers -- Drama
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Drama
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

Meet Justin Cobb, a teenager who still sucks his thumb. Realizing it's totally disrupting his home, love and school life, he allows his orthodontist to break him of the habit through hypnosis. Justin begins to experiment with prescription drugs and sex as alternate means to overcome his anxieties and become "normal," never realizing normal is just a state of mind

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Executive producers, Anne Carey, Ted Hope, Bob Yari, Cathy Schulman ; producers, Anthony Bregman, Bob Stephenson ; writer/director, Mike Mills

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Rated R for drug/alcohol use and sexuality involving teens, language and a distressing image

Language note

• Closed-captioned
• Includes French language track and subtitles in French

PerformerNote

Lou Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Benjamin Bratt, Kelli Garner, Vince Vaughn

Runtime

96

Target audience

general

Technique

live action