Jim Gaffigan on ‘American Dreamer’, ‘You Can Choose Your Family’, and Going to Dark Places

For a man so famously pale, Jim Gaffigan has certainly gone dark. The comedian leads two films in this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, American Dreamer and You Can Choose Your Family, both of which see him delving into far less wholesome parts of his persona than food-and-family stand-up or his 2014 book, Food: A Love Story. In director Derrick Borte's thriller American Dreamer, Gaffigan plays Cam, an erratic, down-on-his-luck driver who decides to get out of a financial bind by kidnapping a drug dealer's child. You Can Choose Your Family …

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