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LONESOME JIM
USA, 2005, 91 MIN, RATED R
DIRECTED BY STEVE BUSCEMI
Steve Buscemi has been an icon of the American indie film movement for the last two decades. Now in his third impressive outing as director, he brings his skewed wit and compassion to the story of an immobilized young man and paints a vivid and honest portrait of working-class life in the Midwest. Jim (Casey Affleck) begrudgingly returns from New York to his home in rural Indiana after failing to make it on his own. He quickly remembers why he left in the first place: a doting but overbearing mom (Mary Kay Place), a distant father (Seymour Cassel), and a depressed older brother (Kevin Corrigan) who keeps having “accidents.” Soon Jim is forced to take on his brother’s duties, yet crippled by these obligations and his own anxieties, he trudges on. Only when he rediscovers Anika (Liv Tyler), a past romantic encounter, does he begin to figure out what separates life’s winners from losers. With its impeccable casting and finely observed script, LONESOME JIM portrays the aimlessness of its hero’s life with empathy and a wry sense of humor.