'Lonesome Jim' Opens 29th Cleveland International Film Festival by Brian Brooks Steve Buscemi on the set of 'Lonesome Jim', which opened the 29th Cleveland International Film Festival on Thursday night. Image courtesy of the filmmakers. Steve Buscemi's competition film Lonesome Jim opened the 29th annual Cleveland International Film Festival last night, marking the event's 29th edition.
Buscemi attended a screening of the film, which stars Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place and Seymour Cassel, along with producer Galt Niederhoffer and screenwriter James S. Strouse. Affleck plays a downtrodden writer who returns to his family in Indiana from New York and begins dating a nurse (Tyler).
Source: IndieWire