Thumbsucker

Tonight Amy and I headed over to the Angelika in Dallas to catch a showing of Thumbsucker. It's a film about a high school senior who still sucks his thumb and his efforts to quite, grow up move on with life, come of age etc. The entire movie is scored by The Polyphonic Spree, so you can imagine that it has a whole uplifting peppy vibe to it and at the same time an underlying weirdness. It also has some of the airiness and pacing of Napolean Dynamite and Garden State but with a little more of a clear cut story. It's an excellent film even though keanu Reeves threatens to steal the movie. Yes, I used the words excellent film and Keanu Reeves in the same sentence. Keanu plays an orthodontist in this movie, and it is a role that I don't think anybody esle could have played. It is as though the role were custom written for him with a cross of Neo and Bill & Ted to produce an insightful yet short-sighted mystical orthodontist character. It works. Go see it before it leaves theatres.

After the movie, Amy and I went over to Campisi's from some pizza in the old Eqyptian restaurant location where they still have jukeboxes at the booths and bullet holes from ganster shootouts in the walls. The movie and dinner combo made for a great evening.

And Texas finally beat the Sooners.