Director Alexander Payne talks up `Downsizing´
(WorldNews Entertainment)

In the 20-plus years that writer-director Alexander Payne has been putting out decidedly offbeat films, many of them starring A-list actors, he`s often shown a tendency to lean toward the comic side of things, even when dealing with serious subjects. `About Schmidt,` with Jack Nicholson, was as funny as it was sobering; `Sideways` featured Paul Giamatti as a man overflowing with self-doubt, yet had plentiful comic relief from Thomas Haden Church; `Nebraska` had Bruce Dern playing an aging, [...] ......