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Lonesome Jim
Interview, March, 2006 by Stephen Mooallem
REVIEW: LONESOME JIM (IFC) Directed by Steve Buscemi
Having failed to make it in New York, Jim (Casey Affleck) returns home to the small town in Indiana where he grew up, ostensibly to find himself. In the process, he consorts with his drug-addled cousin (Mark Boone Junior), hooks up with a woman he meets at a bar (Liv Tyler), and inadvertently drives his brother (Kevin Corrigan) to a ham-fisted suicide attempt. Dry, cynical, and terminally malaised, Affleck's Jim does for loserishness what Larry David has done for obnoxiousness, by making it look effortless, though Tyler remains the lone shot of color in a very beige landscape. But Steve Buscemi, helming his third film, pulls it all together, giving both the actors and the story enough room to breathe.
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