Tim Blake Nelson On 'Adventures In The Sin Bin'

Tim Blake Nelson goes against type in his new film Adventures In The Sin Bin, in which he plays a Chicago police officer offering fatherly advice to Brian, a lost teenage boy. "This was not in my wheelhouse and, in addition to liking the material a great deal, I wanted the challenge of playing a character a bit older than I am and with an accent and a frame of reference that was pretty unfamiliar to me," Nelson told Uinterview exclusively.

Adventures In The Sin Bin follows the escapades of a teenager who loans out his van for his classmates' sexual exploits while trying to lose his own virginity. But the movie goes a lot deeper than your typical teen sex romp. "In a really touching way, this movie is about a teenager trying to find parenting within himself," Nelson said. "So what you get is a movie, that in it's own funny way, is a movie about self-discovery, as opposed to a rite of passage movie."

Adventures In The Sin Bin opens Oct. 18 in select cities.