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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)Binding: DVD Brand: Paramount EAN: 9780792172581 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0792172582 Label: Paramount Manufacturer: Paramount Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 26, 2001 Running Time: 111 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: 2000 Sales Rank: 18456 MPN: PARD338944D Related Items: Editorial Review: Product Description: A good-hearted drama about a small-town business woman whose irresponsible brother drifts back into her life causing complications for her and her eight-year-old son. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Laura Linney Rory Culkin Run time: 110 minutes Rating: R Director: Kenneth Lonergan Amazon.com: You Can Count On Me starts with a terrible car crash that instantly orphans a little boy and his older sister. At film's end, that boy, now a grown-up nomad and ne'er-do-well, takes off by Greyhound after a brief reunion with his sister, who lives at permanent anchor in their unspoiled hometown. The sibling saga that unreels between wrenching collision and bittersweet separation celebrates the idiosyncratic ways wounded folk like Terry (Mark Ruffalo) and Sammy (Laura Linney) put one foot in front of the other, both energized and hamstrung by the knowledge that nothing is ever certain in the road-movie of life. During his visit, Terry roils Sammy's becalmed existence, mostly by "fathering"--for good and ill--her overprotected 8-year-old (Rory Culkin), sneaking him out to play empowering bar pool, later introducing him to the weaselly dad he's fantasized into a superhero. Sammy starts a torrid affair with her married boss at the bank (Matthew Broderick gives delicious bureaucratic smarm), and considers marrying her sometime suitor (Jon Tenney), sweetly dull yet dependable. The narrative peaks here are human-sized, elevated by gentle humor and clear-eyed faith in the existential importance of these intersecting small-town lives. Linney is simply superb as Sammy, wild girl gone good, involuntarily "mothering" every man in her life. An authentic original, newcomer Ruffalo gives his modern-day Huck Finn a drawling, James Dean delivery tuned somewhere between a screwup's whine and the twang of pothead wisdom. (Hard to think of another recent film that so deftly nails down the rich dynamics of everyday conversation--the starts and stops, circumlocutions, clichés, sudden veers into revelation and eloquence.) This is that rarity, an action movie of the heart: no explosions or epiphanies, yet everything evolves through the catalysts of character and experience. --Kathleen Murphy Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Moments of truth slip through...This really is an example of beautifully simplistic filmmaking. There are no real villians in this film, but there aren't any heroes either. What is so refreshing is that this movie is just about people. People that you know in your real life. Sometimes they are witty, stometimes they are wise and sometimes they do ridiculously stupid things because they don't know what else to do. These are the players in the film. It is set in a nondescript small town in New York and is pretty much about two ... Read More Rating: - Honest, Touching, Funny and AuthenticAn amazing gem of a film. "You Can Count On Me" is an incredible story about loss, familial love, coping with one's own failings, and being alone. The acting is so well done, I was drawn into and held in the story. Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo embody their characters so completely, the actors melt away. Matthew Broderick and Jon Tenney play equally engrosing support roles. The film overall is artful and well-conceived. The soundtrack complements the sometimes whistful, sometimes ... Read More Rating: - what a amazing filmthis film was amazing. as a actor it is so nice to see a film that truely captures the essence of a true experience. this film had my emotions everywhere from happy to sad. The performances are amazing. Mark is brillant and Laura Linny, you can not keep your eyes off her. Matthew Brodrick is always good and this is his best performance to date for me. the little kid is sweet and you know everything he is thinking. I highly recommend this film. Not a blockbuster but better. Rating: - You Can Count on MeThis powerful, fascinating film examines how two very different siblings cope with a single, life-changing tragedy, and how this event affects their own interactions. Written and directed by Lonergan (who also plays a priest), "Count" depicts this complex relationship with a nuanced mix of humor and heartbreak. Linney received an Oscar nod for her portrayal of Sammy, but it's Ruffalo's intense performance as the younger sibling that really stands out. "Count" is an uncommonly wise and human story about ... Read More Rating: - Excellent family dramaLaura Linney and Mark Ruffalo are two of my favourite actors, so seeing them together in the same film playing sister and brother is a rare treat. They are both spot on in their portrayals of, respectively, a single mother yearning for some excitement, and an unreliable drifter whose life so far has been a series of mistakes. I've always thought that the 'family drama' type of film is very difficult for directors to get right. It is very easy for it to be too sickly-sweet or for the family ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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