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What Is Steve Buscemi’s ‘Trees Lounge’ About?

“Why you crying?

Steve Buscemi Wrote and Directed this Comedy-Drama That Inspired ‘The Sopranos’ (Trees Lounge)

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He’s gonna be fine.”

Trees Loungeopens as Tommy Basilio (Buscemi) loses both his job as a mechanic and his girlfriend.

The film straddles that balance between comedy and tragedy perfectly, treating one and both the same.

Steve Buscemi as Tommy Basilio and Debi Mazar as Crystal have a drink in Trees Lounge (1996)

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Trees Loungeis available to watch on Prime Video in the U.S.

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Samuel L. Jackson as Wendell and Larry Gilliard Jr. as James smiling in matching shirts in Trees Lounge

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Trees Lounge centers on Tommy, an unemployed mechanic who spends his days at a local bar grappling with personal dissatisfaction and aimlessness. His interactions with a diverse group of patrons reveal the complexities and struggles of small-town life, as Tommy attempts to find direction and meaning amid his stagnation.

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