Trees Lounge (1996 91min.) [Film4 12.20am friday]
Comedy drama directed by and starring Steve Buscemi. Tommy Basilio, an unemployed mechanic, lives above the Trees Lounge bar, where he spends his evenings drinking himself into oblivion. When his uncle dies of a heart attack, Tommy takes over driving his ice-cream truck and strikes up a relationship with 17-year-old Debbie, the niece of a former girlfriend.
Beautifully played melancholic drama with some superb performances and a really strong grip on the atmosphere of the central character's struggle for salvation.
Sweet, touching and darkly comic, it's a small but wonderful film.
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