By Paul Byrnes November 23, 2005  Offbeat American indie film
finds satire - and sympathy - in suburban neurosis.
Thumbersucker Lou Taylor Pucci.  Thumbersucker Lou Taylor Pucci.
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States Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Keanu Reeves, Vincent
D'Onofrio, Vince Vaughn Mike Mills Screen Writer Mike Mills  A
lot of American independent movies are obsessed with the
suburbs, and not in a way that would make you want to move
there.  Many of the films are about dark dangers in the
neighbourhood or within the family (Gregg Araki's savage
Mysterious Skin).  Some are more whimsical about the barrenness
(Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know), but still
sanguine. Gus van Sant's Elephant traced the path of suburban
ennui straight to a Columbine-style school massacre. Still
others see a domestic touch of evil within the banality
(Alexander Payne's films before Sideways, most of Todd Solondz's
films).  These are probably not the films George Bush invites t