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Lonesome Jim - 2006

Movie Reviews -- week of 4/24/2006

LONESOME JIM

RATING
1 out of 4 Stars
CAST & CREW
Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Directed by Steve Buscemi
THEATRICAL RELEASE
March 14, 2006 NYC/LA
MPAA RATING
R
RUNTIME
1 hours, 27 minutes
RELEASE COMPANY
IFC Films
GENRE
Comedy and Drama

Review: Director Steve Buscemi tells the drab, painfully slow-moving saga of Jim (Casey Affleck), a twenty-seven year old failure who returns home to his dysfunctional, Mid-Western family when he gives up on his dream of lining in New York City. A film shot in a grainy, home video format, this boring tale manages to unravel before us without any regard for our discomfort with its tedium. “Lonesome Jim” could easily be re-titled “Depressing Jim” or "Morose Jim." On the positive side, Casey Affleck does a great job of keeping the dreadfully slow cadence required by the film.

Even the introduction of love interest, Anika (Liv Tyler), cannot lift the dark cloud that shades the theater. Patience with the morose Jim gets thin as he repeatedly mopes through life in small-town Indiana. There were no snippets of conversation as the audience exited the screening, only sighs of relief.

by Mary Morgan is a member of the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association.

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