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.
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
Reviews for Lonesome Jim
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An unintentional parody of Sundance Hades circa 1996 Full Review |
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"Lonesome Jim" is an earnest and modest 'little independent' movie that charms by way of its understated underachieving characters. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Minimalist, moody and morose, Lonesome Jim is a minor gem. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The world would be a better place if Steve Buscemi made more movies. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Steve Buscemi's third film as a director is a low key affair delivered with a wry sense of humour. Full Review |
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It's poignant, quietly life-affirming little story that doesn't need to shout. Lonesome Jim's good company. Full Review |
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4/6 |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Has great relevance to the lost adultolescent generation of today ... but it also flounders in its commonplace and too-familiar concept. Full Review |
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3/4 |
A depressing illustration of how even Middle America has ended up marginalized and rudderless in the wake of outsourcing, downsizing and globalization. Full Review |
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As the credits started to roll, I came to a pleasant and all-too-rare moviegoing realization: The smile that had crept across my face during the very first scene had never left. Full Review |
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4/10 |
Its title character is such a lifeless loser, you wish Moonstruck's Cher was around to slap him hard and yell, 'Snap out of it!' Full Review |
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"Lonesome Jim" is worth checking out, if nothing else for the performances and Buscemi's idiosyncratic sense of irony. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Too many movies offer cardboard cutouts of even their primaries, but Jim delivers honest, three-dimensional portraits of each of the major players. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Manages to be bitter, dispiriting and utterly pointless all at once. Full Review |
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Helped by the precise details of small-town life and laughs generated by circumstances almost everyone can relate to, Lonesome Jim is gratifying because of its nearly cheerful depiction of sorrow, not in spite of it. Full Review |
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