A comic c elebration of d reamers and their  dreams, LIVI NG IN OB LIVION is  the second film writte n and direct ed by Tom DiCill o. With  a tone that tee ters somew here between Kafka and the  Marx Brother s, it chron icles the h ilarious misad ventures o f a gro up of people wh o have jo ined together to accomplish  one of th e most difficul t goals i maginable - the makin g of a l ow-budget ind ependent f ilm. Wi th an innovat ive and su rprising  structu re that shift s fluidly between t he movie b eing made and  those making  it, the  film offe rs a rare an d accurate  -- if co mically  heightened -- look beh ind-the-s cenes,  with the peopl e who make th e scenes. How  they make them -- and the fact that they manage to ma ke them a t all - - is what  LIVING IN O BLIVION is al l about.    Starring Steve  Buscemi a s direct or Nick Rev e, LIVING IN  OBLIVION highl ights a day on the set of Nick&amp ;#39;s  film where e verything th at could possi bly go wrong, actuall y does. Str uggling again st ever-escalat ing odds to mainta in his inte grity and his s anity, Nick is both he lped and hindered by  his bumbli ng, if  well-int entioned  crew, h eaded by his cinemat ographer Wolf (Dermot Mulron ey), a cameram an whose lea ther gear sug gests t hat he is more  inspired by Bil ly Idol t han Sven Nykvis t; a lead ing lady, Nicol e (Catherine Ke ener), a ta lented but neu rotic actr ess who is in volved in a  romance and a rivalry with her leading  man, Chad Pa lomino (J ames Le Gr os); an iron-wi lled as sistant d irector, Wa nda (Danielle  Von Zerne ck); and, for the fi rst time ever on-scree n, a Gaffer.！