Directed by Steve Buscemi
After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in the Midwest to lick his wounds. But his visit is quickly complicated when his angst spreads to his brother, Tim, who promptly decides to drive his car straight into a tree. Under the shadow of his sibling's injurious actions, Jim strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anika, whose centered small-town wisdom gradually rubs off on him.
Conociendo a Jim, Lonesome Jim - Manche Leute sollten keine Eltern sein, ג'ים הבודד, Samotář Jim, Yalnız Jim, Одинокий Джим, 孤独的吉姆, Samotny Jim, Facér Jimmy, 孤獨的吉姆
USA Sundance Film Festival USAR USA 
casey affleck in Lonesome Jim walked, so casey affleck in Manchester by the Sea could fly....
Lonesome Jim is one of the most elusive films in Casey Affleck's filmography and it's the single last one of his works I was able to track down. It's noteworthy for housing what is essentially the actor's first solo lead role. It didn't get much notice, peaking at sixteen theaters and barely grossing six figures domestically in the spring of 2006, but it added to his resume and presumably led to terrific work in movies like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Gone Baby Gone the following year, Manchester by the Sea and A Ghost Story the following decade, and two of the best films of the current decade (three if you want to count…
If this guy’s depressed now, just wait till he moves to Manchester-by-the-Sea
Steve thinks he can get away with making the most lowkey and greatest of the lowkey bangers and get away with it?
Had the Aki Kaurismäki influence and sensibilities all over this. Beautiful, dry, depressing and funny. I’ll get behind that any day.
liv tyler's character was called anika so whenever casey said her name, he was Almost saying my name and i died every time
65/100
[Originally published on Nerve.com.]
Evocative title, but it's a tad misleading; on the other hand, good luck getting anyone to go see a movie called Despondent Jim. Working from an autobiographical screenplay by first-timer James C. Strouse (and shooting in Strouse's actual hometown, childhood home, etc.), Steve Buscemi, in his third film as director, taps the same comically morose vein of small-town loserdom that distinguished his fine 1996 debut, Trees Lounge. But where the characters in that film were more or less congenital failures, Jim (Casey Affleck), who's still fairly young, is reeling from a particular and common disgrace virtually never depicted in the movies: the humiliation of returning home—in this case, to dreary Goshen, Indiana—after years spent getting…
This movie doesn't as much tell a story as it conveys a feeling, and that feeling is "mind-numbingly depressed". Casey Affleck is wonderful in this movie. He managed to be sad for 90 minutes without ever hamming things up, which makes that one outburst of joy he has very beautiful. Sadly, this film is somewhat held back by one rather typical indie cliché: its lack of pace. We're not just dealing with a slow-moving plot here, because there is no plot. It's just a slow-moving bunch of scenes. Most of the scenes go on for a bit too long, others are just plain unnecessary. Thank God the occasional dark humour can bring something extra, because parts of this movie are really quite boring. Nevertheless, Jim is a compelling character, and Steve Buscemi appears to be quite talented as a director, so this is still worth seeing.
Casey's curls deserve their own acting credit. They're that good.
is this guy ever happy?
Lonesome Jim? More like Lonesome JERK. Die alone, Lonesome Jerk!
me core
Casey Affleck is a rare gem. Effortlessly, Casey is consumed by his characters. Most of the characters he plays are second to someone. Casey is usually in the background. He seems content being in the background but his performances make you pay attention to him. You empathize with his characters and for that I am forever grateful. I learn a lesson after every movie he is in, and he is truly a special talent. Uncomparable, undefinable and excellent. This movie flows quite nicely and by the end, you both learn something, whether it be about society or internal, and are truly inspired. I really enjoyed watching this.
