20 SXSW Films You Need To Know About
16. 7 Chinese Brothers
No relation to the children's storybook of the same name, Bob Byington’s comedy-drama casts Jason Schwartzman in a new spin on his usual charmingly schlubby loser role: Larry is an alcoholic working a dead-end job at a local garage, whose life is going nowhere.
And over the course of the film, that doesn't look to change. Byington is a master not only of wringing comedy out of hopeless situations, but also in his honesty about those situations. No happy Hollywood ending here.