Synopsis: Young man returns to his parents' house after not having made it in New York.
Appraisal: This film deals with the topics of motivation and happiness in life and the role families play in it. I always take the subjacent psychology of supposedly realistic films like this one with a grain of salt. The tendency for psychological falsification is apparently inherent in screenwriters from all over the world. But 'Lonesome Jim', while probably a little strained or simplistic in some details (e.g. the children are too uniformly well behaved; the ending was 100% predictable and 0% consistent with how real people act), looks reasonably true to life in the bigger picture it draws. I think it hits the mark more often than it misses it.
Rating: 54
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