Episode 330 – How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? – Lonesome Jim (2005)

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On a returning HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? we are stepping back behind the camera to look at a film directed by the man himself: 2005’s LONESOME JIM. Written by Jim Strouse and starring Casey Affleck as a depressed, failed novelist who returns to his Indiana hometown and connects with a local nurse (played by Liv Tyler), LONESOME JIM got a bit lost in the cavalcade of sad-sack dude movies in the mid 2000s, but is it worthy of discovery? Let’s find out.

Here’s the Steve Earle video for “City of Immigrants”, directed by Steve Buscemi

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