Trees Lounge

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Trees Lounge

R,

1996,

1h 34m,

Comedy/

Drama

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81%

26 Reviews

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78%

5,000+ Ratings

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81%

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26 Reviews

78%

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5,000+ Ratings

Long Island loser Tommy (Steve Buscemi) is a hopeless alcoholic who loses his job for stealing from his boss, Rob (Anthony LaPaglia), who's now dating his ex, Theresa (Elizabeth Bracco). Tommy copes with his failures by hanging out at local dive Trees Lounge with friends he can barely stand. He takes a gig as the ice cream man, but he's awful with kids. The best thing in his life is a lukewarm romance with cool local girl Debbie (Chloë Sevigny), who, unfortunately, is Theresa's underage niece.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

3.5/4

Steve Buscemi, who plays Tommy and also wrote and directed the film, knows about alcoholism from the inside out and backward, and his movie is the most accurate portrait of the daily saloon drinker I have ever seen.

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

Jan 1, 2000

3.5/5

Trees Lounge gives the appearance of being slight, spontaneous, and effortless. It would be easy to write off Buscemi's maiden effort as a serendipitous fluke, but just like that face of his, you know that surface values are merely the outer layer.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jan 8, 2007

B+

An impressive feature debut from indie icon Buscemi, a serio-comedy and character study of a barfly (played by Buscemi) and the entourage that frequents the same working bar day after day; John Cassavetes would have been proud of this film.

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Nov 14, 2005

3/5

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Sep 14, 2005

2.5/4

Not nearly as interesting as Buscemi's body of work in front of the camera.

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Chuck O'Leary

Fantastica Daily

Aug 31, 2005

3/5

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Albus S

Dec 24, 2018

reminded me why I don't like bar flies. In that respect, the movie was kind of irritating. But overall, it took a pretty funny approach to answering that question about what went so wrong in someone's life that they have succumb to wasting their lives over cheap beer and sub-par company. It's worth a watch! And of course, SB is just great.

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Luke S

May 11, 2017

Not sure why this was rated so high. Acting was good, but script is basically about scummy people. I'm supposed to be interested in these folks?

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Synopsis

Long Island loser Tommy (Steve Buscemi) is a hopeless alcoholic who loses his job for stealing from his boss, Rob (Anthony LaPaglia), who's now dating his ex, Theresa (Elizabeth Bracco). Tommy copes with his failures by hanging out at local dive Trees Lounge with friends he can barely stand. He takes a gig as the ice cream man, but he's awful with kids. The best thing in his life is a lukewarm romance with cool local girl Debbie (Chloë Sevigny), who, unfortunately, is Theresa's underage niece.

Director: Steve Buscemi
Producer: Chris Hanley, Brad Wyman
Screenwriter: Steve Buscemi
Distributor: Orion Pictures, Artisan Entertainment, Live Entertainment
Production Co: Muse Productions, Live Entertainment
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 11, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 9, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $673.3K
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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