Meet Generation Rx
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn’t bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won’t care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get through their days.
This film provides examples of:
- Accidental Kidnapping: Billy and Lee try to kidnap Dean's brother, but instead kidnap an entirely different kid.
- Adults Are Useless: A major theme in the film, as the parents are completely oblivious to the drug-dealing and kidnapping that their kids are getting up to.
- Dull Surprise: Dean finds his best friend dead and has no reaction.
- Eye Scream: Happens to Billy.
- Police Are Useless: Dean gets arrested for getting into a fight and tries to the police officer that he's caught up in a ridiculous kidnapping plot, but the cop doesn't believe him. This is even worse because the kidnapping victim in question is the cop's own son, who he hasn't realized is missing yet.
- The Shrink: Dean's dad, who seems to be of the "well-meaning" variety.
