Written by, directed by and starring Steve Buscemi, Trees Lounge is an indie movie that focuses on the multi-hyphenate star's Tommy as he goes through a bit of a mid life crisis in a pokey little US town.
brilliant...but...
I thought that this was a really nice little comedy-drama, with quirky characters and some great casting, including Samuel L. Jackson, Mimi Rogers and Daniel Baldwin. As ever with these indie character studies, not a great deal happens. Tommy has a bit of a thing with a teenage girl (Chloe Sevigny)... and that's about it, other than him driving around in an ice cream truck. I had memories of Junebug, which also had the same feeling of 'nice movie, what's the point?' Buscemi is a great director and it's good to see him in a lead role as a normal human being and not some weirdo. He's really sympathetic here, although there seems little motivation behind his disintegrating life. The supporting cast are an assortment of oddballs and hicks and there's a general good humouredness about the whole that left me satisfied.
briefly...
Nothing much happens, but sometimes that's ok, especially if it allows Buscemi to do his thing.
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