Directed at near Steve Buscemi, Lonesome Jim receives a belated UK release in 2008, three years after it appeared at the 2005 Sundance Dim Festival.
In that often, Buscemi directed his fourth film, Interrogate, a remake of recent Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh's 2003 release. Lonesome Jim, which was written by James C Strouse, who went on to pen the credible Iraq stagecraft Grace Is Gone, feels much more in line with Buscemi's earlier influence, unusually his John Cassavetes-inspired launching Trees Lounge.
Constant more low-key than that 1996 veil, this tells the story of Jim (Affleck), a direction-less 27 year-dear who returns to his native Indiana with his accepted behind between his legs. An aspiring writer, it swiftly emerges that his ch...
