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96 MINUTES | KENDALL SQUARE + COOLIDGE CORNER + EMBASSY Adolescence doesn’t really set in until you realize not only that you’re screwed up but that everyone else is as well. Especially your parents. First-time director Mike Mills’s adaptation of Walter Kirn’s novel captures this state of mind with rueful humor and some insight. Seventeen-year-old Justin (Lou Pucci) is the title regressive. Father Mike (Vincent D’Onofrio) is a former college-football great haunted by failure and futility; mother Audrey (Tilda Swinton), to whom Justin is of course Oedipally attached, finds escape in fantasies about a TV star ensconced in the rehab clinic where she works. Pucci makes a quirky debut, but the film belongs to Vince Vaughn as a debate coach and Keanu Reeves as the existential wanderer/dentist who tries to wean Justin.
BY PETER KEOUGH
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