
Jim is a young man who, after deciding he can't make it on his own, moves back to his hometown in Indiana -- under his parents' roof. He's saved from his family's dysfunction by a local woman and her son, who sees him as a father figure.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jim is a young man who, after deciding he can't make it on his own, moves back to his hometown in Indiana -- under his parents' roof. He's saved from his family's dysfunction by a local woman and her son, who sees him as a father figure.
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| Time OutDave CalhounRefreshingly, there's more lethargy than awakening here... |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsGlenn WhippBuscemi's prior films (Trees Lounge, Animal Factory) displayed a keen eye for detail, and that is evident everywhere here. |
| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionBob LonginoA slight, but amusing and occasionally touching, dark comedy about depression and dysfunction that percolates with indie film hipness. |
| Sympatico.caAngela Baldassarre"Lonesome Jim" is worth checking out, if nothing else for the performances and Buscemi's idiosyncratic sense of irony. |
| Weekly PressKam WilliamsA depressing illustration of how even Middle America has ended up marginalized and rudderless in the wake of outsourcing, downsizing and globalization. |
| Film4James MottramMinimalist, moody and morose, Lonesome Jim is a minor gem. |
| Reel.comGary GoldsteinIf viewers can just get in synch with the movie's low energy and decidedly minor key, there are many pleasures to be had here, not the least of which is Affleck's affecting, unadorned performance. |
| Detroit Free PressTerry LawsonWhile Lonesome Jim may be clinically acute, it is by its very nature dramatically inert. |
| Palo Alto WeeklySusan TavernettiEverything from the film's washed out, grainy look to the dialogue rings false. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussAs in 'Elizabethtown' and 'Jersey Girl,' the hero doesn't have to do anything but exist to attract the devoted attentions of a beautiful woman, a sexist fantasy of entitlement as insidious (if unacknowledged) as that found in an old Rat Pack movie. |