Thumbsucker (2005)

Some childhood behaviors are not so much outgrown as shifted into a more productive and acceptable outlet. Obviously a young girl who is an inveterate Thumbsucker (2005) has a happy future ahead of her as a popular and prolifically dated high-school coed and will settle down with a chronically pleased husband. In this age of rampant homophobia and institutionalized denial of gay rights, however, fate is more complicated for a male who cannot keep his thumb out of his mouth. To what useful, socially desirable activity might a boy thus afflicted divert his compulsive and concentrated energies? Thumbsucker has the answers, and they are guaranteed to amuse, delight, and perhaps even enlighten.