FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Lonesome Jim 

When they used to film in Hollywood, they went to the big city to try their luck. Today, after the defeat, they return to the small town. Like in "Garden State" DVD1350 or "Beautiful Girls" DVD9866 or "Jersey Girl" DVD2915. All close relatives of Lonesome Jim. I will probably make a movie list out of it. All these movies tell us that the big city is crushing us. But your hometown can give you a new start, even though it's the center of all depression and madness. That's where the parents live. Risky, even if you're just visiting like in "Junebug" DVD2614. All these movies are about the decay of optimism. Jim (Casey Affleck) went to New York to write. Although the famous authors on the wall of his children's room were all soaring to death, he wanted to do it better. But it didn't work. He returns to Indiana. Who knows, maybe director and author Steve Buscemi even depicts Indiana somewhat unfairly. As a dirty hole full of losers. But that's where Jim landed again. He meets his brother Tim (Kevin Corrigan), who never left his parents' house. His parents are described in New German as "blatant": The father is bitter, the mother untiringly cheerful. She runs a craft business which her brother Evil (Mark Boone Junior) uses as a depot for drug deals. Tim, who deliberately set his car against a tree, still has to train fourteen-year-old girls in basketball. They never win. Tim's nurse is single mother Anika (Liv Tyler). Fortunately, there is a Liv Tyler in such homecoming movies that soothes the pain. Like in "Jersey Girl". And she's ready for One Night Stands, even though Jim as a human isn't exactly inviting. In all the small town movies a Natalie portman or Kirsten Dunst always appears to comfort the hero. But despite the fast sex Anika approaches Jim cautiously. Just right. Anyway, Jim seems to accept his defeat. He withdraws. That's why Lonesome Jim is a movie about being able to breathe again and not to mope anymore. Can someone like Jim accept the love of a woman like Anika? Can he even be happy? I think Indiana isn't so different from the Berlin suburb where I grew up. I would think YES, he can be happy there. It's his decision.