The Chumscrubber (2007)

Suicide, kidnap, familial dysfunction - just a normal day in the community of Hillside, the setting for Arie Posin's poisonous tale of disaffected youth struggling to make a connection with their narcissistic parents and the world at large. Full of pill-popping kids, dark secrets and hallucinogenic apparitions, comparisons to Donnie Darko are both inevitable and unflattering. But The Chumscrubber, which takes its rather bewildering moniker from a headless computer-game hero whose vigilante exploits embody the bitter resentments that simmer just beneath the surface of this cosy middle-class enclave, is not the pale imitation it first appears.

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