Lonesome Jim
by Steve Buscemi
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Actor: Casey Affleck, Kevin Corrigan, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour CasselDirector: Steve Buscemi
Brand: Genius
Producer: Anna Waterhouse
Producer: Caroline Kaplan
Producer: Celine Rattray
Producer: Daniela Taplin Lundberg
Producer: Derrick Tseng
Producer: Emily Gardiner
Writer: James C. Strouse
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 79544
Studio: Ifc
Product features:
- Steve Buscemi's seamless direction and James C. Strouse's thoughtful script paint a picture of working-class characters filled with the comedy and rich details of everyday life. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR Age: 796019795449 UPC: 796019795449 Manufacturer No: 79544
DVD Reviews of Lonesome Jim
DVD Review: "I thought I was f**cked up... what about you?"
Summary: 3 Stars
As bland and flat as the landscape in which it is set, this is indeed a strange directing vehicle for Steve Buscemi who has made a career out of acting in hard-edged gritty films. Lonesome Jim is a cheaply made, boring and lackluster film about a twenty-seven year old would be mopey writer who returns to his Indiana family after bottoming out in Manhattan.
The whole film is dispiriting, pointless and morose as we watch Jim (Casey Affleck) advise his divorced older brother (Kevin Corrigan) to kill himself, be dismissive and occasionally cruel to both his mother (Mary Kay Place) - and even steal from her purse - and flirt with the beautiful nurse (Liv Tyler) he supposedly wants to date.
Obviously Jim is terribly depressed - he even keeps pictures of suicidal writers on his bedroom wall - but apart from the fact that he ran out of money in New York, the film offers few clues to the source of Jim's malaise, or that of his entire sad-sack family. Consequently, the story is directionless and rudderless and so indebted to deadpan, droopy, mopey blandness that the subject and the form become one, and end up leaving the viewer numb and indifferent.
The main problem with Lonesome Jim is that the characters are just not that interesting. The film also tries for a kind of pokerfaced humor, which doesn't really work as it attempts to make light of Jim's situation. He's got no wit, no energy, no creative drive, and no spark of life. He's a big, self-indulgent idiot and the film is so closely allied to his dulled sensibilities that it's agonizing, even at its brief running time.
In all fairness, Lonesome Jim does paint a realistic portrait of working-class, mid-western suburbia and the film does have some interesting things to say about following your dreams, with only hard work and a life plan ensuring success. Most of these people are stuck in some kind of rudderless life - choices are limited and their worldview is often narrow.
Affleck, a sly comic and easily the best actor in his family, is suitably solitary and lifeless, maybe a bit too lifeless and Tyler is miscast as a small-town beauty. Fortunately Mary Kay Place rises above it all and provides is with a great portrait of a doting and somewhat neurotic mid-western mom.
Lonesome Jim is indeed a lonely road of a film, it too often dawdles and never accelerates and apart from a thread where one character gets arrested for drug smuggling, the film doesn't seem to have much drama. Mr. Affleck and Buscemi have been weighed down with the difficult task of making grumpiness and petulance seem interesting. But neither of them really succeeds; consequently this film is almost dead on arrival. Mike Leonard September 06.
Description of Lonesome Jim
Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 01/23/2007 Run time: 87 minutes Rating: RBestsellers in DVD
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