“The Ice Cream Truck” (** out of four) was an odd dark-side-of-suburbia thriller in which a repressed middle-aged housewife (Deanna Russo- who is a dead-ringer for Olivia Wilde) moves back to her suburban hometown but finds that the suburbs are a lot scarier than the big city. Oh yeah- I almost forgot to mention that the local ice-cream truck driver is a brutal serial killer. Best thing about the movie is Russo who is sincere and charismatic but otherwise this is alternately bizarre, tedious, and predictable. Subplot about the ice-cream truck driver has almost nothing to do with the main story! David Lynch satirized and vivified everything there is about suburbia in “Blue Velvet” over 30 years ago anyway!

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