7.4

Beginners

2010, USA

• Actors: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox, Mary Page Keller, Keegan Boos, China Shavers, Melissa Tang, Amanda Payton, Luke Diliberto, Lou Taylor Pucci, Bambadjan Bamba, Hana Hwang, Samuel T. Ritter, Jennifer Lauren, Reynaldo Pacheco, Jodi Long, Bruce French, Leslie Shea, Michael Chieffo, Jennifer Hasty, Rodney Saulsberry, June Sanders, Catherine McGoohan, Terry Walters, Lana Young, Algerita Wynn Lewis, Regina McKee Redwing, Sunday Burke
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Mike Mills
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It's 2003. Thirty-eight year old graphic artist Oliver Fields has just lost his father Hal Fields to cancer, after Oliver's mother Georgia Fields passed away five years earlier. Oliver is naturally a sullen man due to his growing up relationship with his parents (his mother who had a unique view on life) and watching his parents' cordial but somewhat distant relationship with each other, but is more so now because of his personal family loss. Oliver embarks on a relationship with Anna, a French actress. Oliver is hoping that his re-energized relationship with Hal following Georgia's death and Hal's new outlook on life during that time will show Oliver how to act in a loving relationship. After Georgia's death, Hal came out of the closet and began to live with a joie de vivre that did not exist before, which included an open relationship with a much younger man named Andy. Oliver's relationship with Anna has other obstacles, including Anna's own vagabond lifestyle and Oliver needing to take care of who was originally Hal's very needy Jack Russell terrier, Arthur.

  6.7

Thumbsucker

2005, USA

• Actors: Ted Beckman, Benjamin Bratt, Vincent D'Onofrio, Arvin V. Entena, Tyler Gannon, Kelli Garner, Allen Go, Dakota Goldhor, Walter Kirn, Kit Koenig, Sarah Lucht, Eric Normington, Nancy O'Dell, Lanette Prazeau, Lou Taylor Pucci, Keanu Reeves, Bob Stephenson, Chase Offerle, Tilda Swinton, Colton Vaughan Evans, Vince Vaughn, Sarah Bing, Echo Brooks, Olivia D. Brown, Patrick Chu, Sarah Iverson, Lin Lu, Maura McNamara, Mahdad Rezaujan, Teresa Alonso
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Mike Mills
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Justin is a teenager boy, who has an oral obsession with his thumb. His mother seems to be a normal housekeeper, but she has her own obsessions as well, like a crush on a TV-star. The only person who's aware of Justin's problem is his father, manager in a store, but none of his advices seem to be working for Justin. The kid is signed up in a debate workshop, but the thing isn't going well, because he has his mind in a pretty classmate and, of course, in his thumb, affecting all the rest of his classes. So, Justin is a loner kid in the school, who prefers to lock himself in the bathroom and suck his thumb. Justin's dentist, a mystical-hippie person, will try to help to overcome his thumb problem, through the hypnosis. But the school's psychologist will diagnose Justin with the Attention Deficit Disorder, and will prescribe him some drugs. Suddenly, Justin's problem with his thumb will disappear, becoming an hyperactive genius, winning several debate contests and the admiration from his teacher. Nevertheless, more serious problems will come for Justin with his mother, his father and with a drug addiction.