If you loved Try Seventeen, try The Chumscrubber

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Try Seventeen

2002 · dir. Jeffrey Porter

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The Chumscrubber

2005 · dir. Arie Posin

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Try Seventeen, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Chumscrubber is

Upper-class suburbs prove less inviting when stuffed with pharmaceutical-grade apathy. A teen discovers a classmate’s corpse yet assumes adults are too busy dosing themselves to notice. The body goes unclaimed, the drugs stay prescribed, and the real tragedy is how little anyone had left to lose.

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