The Chumscrubber

The Chumscrubber

Hillside is a beautiful town somewhere in the USA - to some it may seem like a postcard with the image of the gateway to the "American dream", but teenager Dean knows a little more about it. When Dean Stiffle's best friend, Hillside's top drug dealer Troy, hangs himself in his bedroom, the town's carefully maintained psychotherapeutic balance is thrown into a state of disarray. Dean decided not to tell the adults what happened, but soon everyone, including Dean's classmates, found out. The three of them, Billy, Crystal, and Lee, hatch a plan to kidnap Dean's younger brother, Charlie, in order to force Dean to search for Troy's drug stash. Read more Hillside - a cute little town somewhere in the United States - at first glance looks like a postcard from the advanced American Dream. But teenager Dean (Jamie Bell from "Bill Elliott") knows more. After Troy, Dean's best friend and the city's main drug dealer, hanged himself in his room, the balance among the inhabitants of Hillside, carefully maintained by psychotropic doping, turned out to be disturbed. Three of Dean's school "friends" - Billy (Justin Chatwin), Crystal (Camilla Belle) and Lee (Lou Taylor Pucci) - try to appropriate Troy's stock and develop a risky scheme for this: they kidnap Dean's younger brother, Charlie (Rory Culkin), and return him after Dean gets drugs from his friend's house. Everything would be fine, if only novice gangsters kidnap the wrong boy. Charlie Bratly (Thomas Curtis), the son of divorced parents - police officer Lou Bratly (John Hurd) and interior designer Terra (Rita Wilson) turns out to be in their hands. Charlie's mother is too busy preparing for the wedding with the mayor of the city, Michael Ebbs (Raife Fiennes); Immersed in her troubles, she does not even notice the disappearance of her son. While the young people play kidnappers, the grief-stricken mother of Troy (Glenn Close) organizes a wake, and Terry and Michael prepare for the wedding, we understand that the population of Hillside is divided into two completely separate camps: children and parents. The only thing that unites them is the belief that there is a simple and open path to a happy life for everyone: be it vitamin supplements, membership in the "Ivy League", a fairy-tale wedding, books on psychology or New Age mysticism. For our calm anti-hero Dean, the time has come to get out of his blissful solitude and establish communication between the two camps... ...And all around us is "Chamscrabber" - a cult hero of the pop industry, plowing the expanses of his own post-apocalyptic world populated by demons and mutants. This headless character appears in animated series, bloody video games, on posters, T-shirts, stickers... What is this - the embodiment of teenage anger? A sign of depression of the city's population? A vision born of the collective unconscious? Debutant director Era Pozin, who has a unique style and an amazing flair for magical realism, surrounds each of the key characters of his story with his own acting ensemble. A multi-layered, provocative film, indescribably beautiful visually, with a hypnotizing soundtrack by Jack Horner - "Chamscrabber" announces the arrival of a great master in the cinema. "Chamscrabber" is a joint production of "El Camino" and "Equity Pictures". The director is Ery Pozin, the author of the script is Zach Stanford. The world premiere took place at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2005.