Its mopey pace and the forced 'quirkiness' of its characters will have you reaching for the Ambien in no time.
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03/31/06
Lonesome Jim (2006)
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Reviews Counted:87
Fresh:51
Rotten:36
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Though Lonesome Jim is leavened by sweet, understated humor, it's hard to root for such a morose, self-defeating protagonist.
Theatrical Release:Mar 24, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: With LONESOME JIM, director Steve Buscemi delivers another low-budget gem about small-town American life. Boasting a fresh script courtesy of James C. Strouse, the film begins when 27-year-old Jim... [More]
Starring: Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel
Director: Steve Buscemi
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05/06/06
Though this clash of picket-fenced, down-home values and big city oafishness was handled with a little more delicacy in 2005’s superb ‘Junebug’, Buscemi’s film has lots to say about this fruitful dynamic.
04/11/08
Place [has] played overly chirpy, middle-class mothers/wives before, but the mom here is slowly revealed, through the subtlest changes of expression, to be much more than a caricature.
03/31/06
"Lonesome Jim" is worth checking out, if nothing else for the performances and Buscemi's idiosyncratic sense of irony.
05/26/06
A slight, but amusing and occasionally touching, dark comedy about depression and dysfunction that percolates with indie film hipness.
04/20/06
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10/18/08
Jim's characters may grow on you after a slow setup and, like a hot plate of grits, may stick with you.
04/07/06
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10/18/08
In the end, Lonesome Jim is an enormously hopeful and, I think, realistic film.
04/13/06
Has great relevance to the lost adultolescent generation of today ... but it also flounders in its commonplace and too-familiar concept.
09/17/07
Screenwriter James C. Strouse (in whose hometown the film was shot) provides so few clues to the source of Jim’s malaise, or that of his entire sad-sack family, that the movie remains rudderless and not the least bit believable.
03/30/06
"Lonesome Jim" is an earnest and modest 'little independent' movie that charms by way of its understated underachieving characters.
04/20/09
It is packed with delightfully silly vignettes that had me squirming in my seat with laughter.
04/13/06
Feels like a first film, but "Jim" is Buscemi's third feature and because it marks a technical decline from his earlier efforts, I can't help but greet it with disappointment.
03/31/06
Refreshingly, there’s more lethargy than awakening here...
02/09/06
Casey Affleck is Jim, maybe the least starring role ever to center a movie. In this wet doughnut, he is the wide hole.
04/14/06
If you were to saddle Garden State with a far less likeable lead and set it in Indiana, you might end up with this small gem
04/20/05
There's a slightness to the mildly eccentric material here that leaves the whole enterprise in danger of fluttering away.
04/02/05
Top CriticA simple, no frills story-line told with total deadpan humor that fits in perfectly with the downward spiral of Jim's life.
04/02/05
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