Thumbsucker

In this offbeat coming-of-age story, a meek seventeen-year-old tries to break a lifelong habit with the help of a transcendentalist orthodontist (Keanu Reeves), group therapy, and ADD drugs. The incentives to remove his thumb from his mouth once and for all are strong (and curvaceous), but in the course of doing so he’s forced to transform his life in every regard. This film’s soundtrack has three songs by the late Elliott Smith, whose own inability to cope with the adult world mirrors the struggles of the film’s protagonist; and a score created by the Polyphonic Spree, the psychedelic pop chorale whose music has been described as the happiest sound in the world, gives Thumbsucker a bizarrely inspirational, grand air. 612-825-6006; www.landmarktheatres.com