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.