Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

treeline1 Dean is a withdrawn teen living in a wealthy suburb where his only friend is Troy, his drug dealer. When Troy dies, a school bully kidnaps Dean's little brother to force him to find Troy's stash.What a terrific movie! I loved it and I think I could see it again and again and still see new things. Although the "rich, alienated teens with self-absorbed parents" plot has been done before, there was nothing cliché about this script. The story constantly surprised me and was quite intense and exciting. The cast is full of big stars: Glenn Close plays Troy's shell-shocked mother, Ralph Fiennes is a spaced-out groom, John Heard plays a tough cop, Allison Janney is Dean's mother obsessed with selling VeggieForce, Jason Isaacs is another parent oblivious to his child and the list goes on. Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliot") is the star, however, and he's quite wonderful as the pill-popping, long-suffering Dean.The movie is a dark comedy/tragedy with a fresh look at the emptiness behind the picture-perfect homes of suburbia. Highly recommended.

pmdawn This movie is a study on the lack of communication between people in a micro-scale (in this case a small town). It's like a radical view of today's pharmaceutically-enhanced society (particularly America). The adults are self-obsessed, superficial and completely ignore each other and specially their kids, who are kept from being anarchists by pills.But what happens when there are no more pills? Reality kicks in, and the movie goes on to expose the "interaction" between the residents of this small town amidst a bigger plot, the grief of a shy teenager who is forced to face the truth.I was specially surprised with Lou Taylor Pucci's performance after watching Thumbsucker (a somewhat similar movie, but IMHO a superior one), showing he has a bright future ahead of him. The cast here is very good and does its job superbly. The direction is very subtle and if you're not paying attention you might miss some of the most fun little details.This is not a particularly disturbing film, though, because there is a sense of naivety and superficiality throughout the whole thing. In some places it reminded me of "Bully" and in others, "American Beauty". If you're looking for an off-beat, weird little film with a good cast and a message, this is not a bad option at all.

granc This film has many positive points and many negative points. The two ultimately end up canceling each other and at the end of the film I personally ended up with nothing. The cast is simply brilliant and each and every identifiable character is well-developed and performed extremely well by an unbelievably long series of excellent actors. Being a first venture for the writer/director this shows how many people believed in the project and were ready to commit to it. Sadly what now follows is the negative part of my review. The direction, albeit very good, is also laden with numerous clichés, which after a while start being the only noticeable features of the film. While viewing the film I was slowly removed from the story and started to see all the other films it reminded me of, and sadly it was not a short list*. This fact disconnected me from it eventually and I couldn't appreciate it anymore. This fact, coupled with the fact that the writer/director claims he is shining a spotlight on a subject that is muted was irritating actually, because it was blatantly false, because even though the closest to life in American suburbia I ever was, was a month long trip in 1998, I still got the same message from this film as I got from a number of films before it. One other thing that left me a bit perplexed was some characters' behaviour. I don't mean the offbeat or eccentric behaviours of some of the characters. Those were plausible and perfectly at home with the plot of the film. What I mean is the illogical behaviour of some characters, mainly the teenagers, starting from an academically bright "good lad" (even though fleeing from over-protective and ambitious parents), and a girl who at first glance seems to be good natured, passively agreeing to the whims of an antisocial thug to the point of kidnap and threat of murder, with the latter tolerating obvious flirtation with her own mother, while the former, suddenly blows into a desperate murderous rage, and accepts the fact that the person who initially proposed the murder would not have any part in it. The fact that people who seem to dislike each other have repeated conversations on the telephone in the evening, and finally the issue about drugs: I might have missed a crucial metaphor here, but throughout the film one sees drugs of some kind being distributed to virtually everyone in school, and people pop them here and there and get an instant relief, almost as fast as an injection. The main character ingests psychiatric medication almost by the handful on an "as required" basis (akin to using an asthma inhaler) with virtually no effect apart from satisfying his father, and finally when an incredible amount of a variety of drugs is put in a casserole by a child relatively silent and yet intent on sabotage to the rest of his family beyond belief. This results in a number of supposedly drug-naive individuals at a wake, ingesting an amount of crushed pills meant to supply a whole high-school at once, and only end up laughing and being promiscuous with no further consequence. I found that to be disturbing. Well to end this rather long comment, I think this writer director has potential and certainly commands respect from people who count. I hope this film (somewhat undeservedly) gets him enough success to enable him to make further movies which he himself can relate more to, in order to have more heart and truly be an original work free from the weight of previous films dictating its impact.* I'd recommend to watch the missing child sequence from "The Phantom of Liberty" by Luis Bunuel for example.

Sam Russell I'm sure this film was trying to make some commentary on middle-class suburbia, all is not what it seems or what-not. Any profound statements this film makes certainly went over my head. I think that's because there weren't any.The film follows the life of Dean, a high school boy whose best friend, Troy recently committed suicide. The suicide victim was a drug dealer, and a school bully, Billy (Justin Chatwin) along with his friend Lee (Lou Taylor Pucci) and girlfriend Crystal (Camilla Belle)mistakenly kidnap a boy they thought was Dean's brother as collateral so that Dean would would bring Troy's drugs to Billy. It also follows the lives of some of the other couples in this seemingly normal community.This is an all-star cast - Glenn Close, Ralph Feinnes, Rita Wilson, Jon Heard to name a few. Perhaps they mistakenly thought that this film had a purpose. Most of the characters in this film are absolutely absurd stereotypes, with Ralph Feinnes character just ridiculous. I did find the kidnapping plot interesting though. I wish the film had focused entirely on this. This was perhaps the only poignant social commentary in the film, the dangers of peer pressure and parental ignorance. The character of Billy was actually quite fascinating as the psychopath on the verge of doing something terrible. None of the other characters were likable or interesting. And none of them were 'real'.Basically, the film was just plain weird, which was enough to keep you watching. But much of it was just being weird for the sake of it, trying to make some obscure point. But really this film explores nothing that hasn't been explored before. One reviewer put it perfectly when he said this film was "Desperate Housewives meets Donnie Darko." Of course the writing was the on the wall because I hate both of those. I'm still in the dark as to what the hell a "Chumscrubber" is. Yet another attempt by this film to be profound. I wouldn't say this film is a loss completely. As I've said the kidnapping plot line was interesting. The rest is garbage.