iTunes

Opening the iTunes Store.If iTunes doesn't open, click the iTunes application icon in your Dock or on your Windows desktop.
iTunes

iTunes is the world's easiest way to organize and add to your digital media collection.

We are unable to find iTunes on your computer. To preview, buy, or rent movies, get iTunes now.

Already have iTunes? Click I Have iTunes to open it now.

I Have iTunes Free Download
iTunes for Mac + PC

Lonesome Jim

  R

Steve Buscemi

View More In Drama

Open iTunes to preview, buy, and download this movie.

Plot Summary

A hit at the Sundance Film Festival, Lonesome Jim, the new comedy by Steve Buscemi, is a dead-pan hilarious coming-of-age story. Suffering from self proclaimed "chronic despair," Jim (Casey Affleck) returns from NYC to his Indiana hometown and everything he was so anxious to leave behind. As he connects with his family and takes a hilarious gig as a winless pre-teen girls basketball coach, he encounters a beautiful nurse Anika (Liv Tyler) who is everything he isn't - optimistic. The relationship opens the door to a future in which Jim might be able to move forward without leaving everything from his past behind. As you'd expect from Buscemi, the film is filled with marvelous, understated performances and hilarious unexpected insights.

Credits

Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews

TOMATOMETER

60%
  • Reviews Counted: 90
  • Fresh: 54
  • Rotten: 36
  • Average Rating: 6.0/10

Top Critics' Reviews

Rotten: Nothing in this well-intentioned but lifeless indie draws the hard laughter that comes from creating characters that somehow get to you. – Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle, Jun 24, 2010

Rotten: The problem is that a little of this minimalist kitchen-sink farce goes a very long way, and after a while Lonesome Jim starts to dry up. – Ty Burr, Boston Globe, Nov 24, 2011

Fresh: The script is adroit: It doesn't force the humor, and it steadily keeps track of Jim's growing maturity. – Stephen Hunter, Washington Post, Jul 16, 2008

Fresh: [Strouse] has written a forlorn and poetic story, and Buscemi has made it into a movie about taking a deep breath and deciding to stop being a mope. – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 7, 2010

Read More About This Movie On Rotten Tomatoes

Customer Reviews

loved it!

I loved this movie. I've always thought both Casey Affleck and Liv Tyler were great, and they shined here. Really funny and a lot less precious than some of the other "coming-of-age" movies lurking around, like garden state etc. -- anyone that liked that would like this even better, I bet.

Excellent

I took a chance with this movie, having bought it without ever having watched it before. I didn't regret buying it. Neither will you.

Didn't love it

I thought this movie lacked in pretty much every area. The characters weren't really that likeable, the plot was completely disheartening, and the humor just wasn't enough to redeem the film from it's lackluster script. Unless you really favor the indie genre, I wouldn't recommend taking the time to watch it. On a side-note, this film was NOT made in nor made to represent Goshen. While small parts (the theater, the hospital, and a few street scenes) were filmed in Goshen to make the town appear larger, majority of it was filmed in TINY Cromwell, Indiana, with accompanying shots of Ligonier, Indiana. The only draw of this movie for me was that, being from Ligonier, I recognized almost every location that they used. Only locals from the areas where the movie was filmed in might presuemably find something to appreciate.

Viewers Also Bought