Trees Lounge

If anybody ever wrote a Field Guide to Alcoholics, withdescriptions of their appearance, sexual behavior and habitats, there would bea full-color portrait on the cover of Tommy, the hero of "TreesLounge." Steve Buscemi, who plays Tommy and also wrote and directed thefilm, knows about alcoholism from the inside out and backward, and his movie isthe most accurate portrait of the daily saloon drinker I have ever seen.

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Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen year old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.

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A Tom Waits song in movie form, Steve Buscemi's directorial debut is a semi-autobiographical account of a barfly in his thirties who inherits an ice cream truck. The impressive extended cast includes Carol Kane, Anthony LaPaglia, Mimi Rogers, Seymour Cassel, the lovely Eszter Balint, and many others.

78% Audience Score

Trees Lounge is a 1996 feature film and the debut of Steve Buscemi as writer and director. It was produced by Brad Wyman and Chris Hanley and features a large ensemble cast of actors, including Buscemi, Anthony LaPaglia, Chloë Sevigny, and Samuel L. Jackson. The film's black humor, based on examination of characters' self-destructive behavior, has been cited as an influence by The Sopranos creator David Chase, who later hired Buscemi to direct "Pine Barrens" and three other episodes of the show, and to star as Tony Soprano's cousin Tony Blundetto during the show's fifth season.[1][2]

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Directed by Steve Buscemi. With Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Bronson Dudley. Tommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar (Trees Lounge) in a small blue collar town. He seems to always be thinking, "If only X then I could stop drinking".