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USA, 2005. Genre: Comedy / Drama
Directed by Mike Mills - Writing credits: Walter Kirn (novel) Mike Mills

— Look, Justin, there was nothing wrong with you.


— I felt like everything was wrong with me.

— It's because we don't want to have problems.

To fix ourselves, we look for a magic solution to make us fell better, but we don't know what we're doing.

And why is that so bad? Afterall it's all we humans can do: guess, try, hope.

— But Justin, I just pray you don't fool your self and think you've got the answer. Because that's bullshit.

The trick is living without an answer ...I think!

Synopsis:
Dubbed "the King Kong of oral obsessives" by his hippie dentist, Justin Cobb is a 16-year-old desperate to find a way to break this embarrassing habit he has retained since infancy. His father, a former football star, tries to help by providing an antidotal cayenne-pepper cream and a healthy dose of fly-fishing. His mother, who works as a nurse helping the rich and famous sober up, seems more concerned with a fantasy romantic relationship with TV-star Don Johnson than with her son's problems. Hypnosis seems to work, but the problem surfaces in other forms from drug addiction to alcoholism.