| You Can Count On Me (2000)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Laura Linney |
Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott
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| Matthew Broderick |
Brian Everett
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| Mark Ruffalo |
Terry Prescott
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| Rory Culkin |
Rudy Prescott
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| Jon Tenney |
Bob Steegerson
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| J. Smith-Cameron |
Mabel
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| Gaby Hoffmann |
Sheila
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| Amy Ryan |
Rachel Louise Prescott
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| Michael Countryman |
Thomas Gerard Prescott
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| Adam LeFevre |
Sheriff Darryl
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| Betsy Aidem |
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| Lisa Altomare |
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| Halley Feiffer |
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| Plot |
| 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 |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama |
| Director |
Kenneth Lonergan |
| Producer |
Barbara De Fina; John Hart |
| Writer |
Kenneth Lonergan |
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| Studio |
Paramount Pictures |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
110 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
1/21/2000 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
551 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
11/1/2005 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 1.85:1 |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
097363389446 |
| Chapters |
19 |
| Release Date |
6/26/2001 |
| Subtitles |
English |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 English Dolby Digital 5.0 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Theatrical Trailer
Exclusive Cast & Crew Interviews
Commentary by Director Kenneth Lonergan
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