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Buscemi Directing "Lonesome Jim"
Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:40 AM EDT
Actor-director Steve Buscemi will undertake his third feature stint behind the camera with "Lonesome Jim", a dysfunctional family comedy-drama starring Liv Tyler and Casey Affleck.
The first screenplay penned by New York fiction writer James C. Strouse, the story follows the return of 28-year-old Jim (Affleck) to his hometown in Indiana, where he is forced, after failing to make it on his own, to move back in with his parents and deal with crippling family obligations. Tyler plays a woman Jim meets in a local bar, whose young son begins treating him like a father.
Shooting is scheduled for February.
Buscemi originally had intended to make his next directing project "Queer", based on the novel about the period spent by author William S. Burroughs in Mexico City in the late 1940s and early '50s.
However, given that "Lonesome Jim" requires a winter backdrop, that film has been moved up, with the "Queer" shoot now planned for fall 2004.
Buscemi will next be seen in theaters in Tim Burton's "Big Fish".
Source: Variety
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