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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1999 DVD Release: 10/19/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 49 mins Studio: Lions Gate Total Copies: 3 Genres: Comedy Drama, Comedy of Manners, Romantic Drama

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? ~ Chris Gore, All Movie Guide

Lili Taylor - Evie Decker
Guy Pearce - Drumstrings Casey
John Hawkes - David Elliott
Sara Rue - Violet
Irma P. Hall - Clotelia

Toni Kalem's adaptation of Anne Tyler's A Slipping-Down Life arrives on DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence. This is a bare-bones release from Artisan. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide