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A comic celebration of dreamers and their dreams,LIVING IN OBLIVION is the second film written and directed by Tom DiCillo. With a tone that teeters somewhere between Kafka and the Marx Brothers,it chronicles the hilarious misadventures of a group of people who have joined together to accomplish one of the most difficult goals imaginable - the making of a low-budget independent film. With an innovative and surprising structure that shifts fluidly between the movie being made and those making it,the film offers a rare and accurate -- if comically heightened -- look behind-the-scenes,with the people who make the scenes. How they make them -- and the fact that they manage to make them at all -- is what LIVING IN OBLIVION is all about. Starring Steve Buscemi as director Nick Reve,LIVING IN OBLIVION highlights a day on the set of Nick's film where everything that could possibly go wrong,actually does. Struggling against ever-escalating odds to maintain his integrity and his sanity,Nick is both helped and hindered by his bumbling,if well-intentioned crew,headed by his cinematographer Wolf (Dermot Mulroney),a cameraman whose leather gear suggests that he is more inspired by Billy Idol than Sven Nykvist; a leading lady,Nicole (Catherine Keener),a talented but neurotic actress who is involved in a romance and a rivalry with her leading man,Chad Palomino (James Le Gros); an iron-willed assistant director,Wanda (Danielle Von Zerneck); and,for the first time ever on-screen,a Gaffer.