"Thumbsucker is something of a sleeping giant of a film. Its greatly understated tone (and at time stupefying effects of witnessing endless surface blandness) allows Mills to point out some rather hefty elephants squatting in the middle of Americans'living rooms today. In a society where the easy answer to everything is a pill, preferably Ritalin, Prozac, or the latest state-of-the-art cure-all, where specious diagnoses permit everyone to become the victim of their faulty brain chemistry, where political debate and examining social issues have become merely talking points for advancing oneself in the popularity contest of suburban life, this film suggests, ever so blithely and blandly that, well, maybe there is something terribly wrong in our nation where everyone ends up needing to be addicted to something."
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