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A Slipping Down Life movie storyline. Making its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, this story adapted for the screen and directed by first-timer Toni Kalem is based on the Anne Tyler novel of the same name. The story deals with finding love in a dead-end life. Evie (Lili Taylor) is a loner, living with her widowed father, who works at an aging kiddie park where she is a costumed cartoon character.
One night she hears the words and music of a musician named Drumstrings Casey (Guy Pearce) on the radio, and Evie is immediately infatuated by him. She attends his concerts and falls in love with him. The problem is he doesn’t know she exists, so Evie decides to carve Casey’s name on her forehead with broken glass. The resulting media attention gets her an introduction to Drumstrings Casey himself.
From there, a relationship develops as Casey needs Evie for creative support and Evie needs Casey for emotional stability. Soon after, they get married; unfortunately their problems only get worse as Casey’s career takes a nosedive and Evie’s father passes away. Will these two people make something of themselves or will they forever just be slipping down life?
A Slipping-Down Life is a 1999 romantic drama film directed by Toni Kalem. Based on a novel by Anne Tyler, it stars Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, Irma P. Hall, Tom Bower, Bruno Kirby, Veronica Cartwright, Shawnee Smith, Sara Rue, John Hawkes, Marshall Bell and Jo Ann Farabee.
A Slipping Down Life (1999)
Directed by: Toni Kalem
Starring: Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, Irma P. Hall, Tom Bower, Bruno Kirby, Veronica Cartwright, Shawnee Smith, Sara Rue, John Hawkes, Marshall Bell, Jo Ann Farabee
Screenplay by: Toni Kalem
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: Michael F. Barrow
Film Editing by: Hughes Winborne
Costume Design by: Francine Lecoultre
Art Direction by: John Frick
Music by: Peter Himmelman
MPAA Rating: R for language including sexual references.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: January 22, 1999
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