You Can Count on Me
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Actor: Betsy Aidem, Lisa Altomare, Matthew Broderick, Michael Countryman, Rory CulkinBrand: Paramount
Primary Contributor: Matthew Broderick
Primary Contributor: Laura Linney
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of You Can Count on Me
Movie Review: Moments of truth slip through...
Summary: 5 Stars
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 siblings, whose parents died when they were very young, who are trying to pull themselves out of the rut that their lives are currently in.
Mark Ruffalo's character is a bad boy character, but the director doesn't make the wandering, trouble making loner such a beautiful thing. This guy really is lonely and he doesn't know who he is. His distate for conventional lifestyles and his rage towards those that question him are his biggest faults and in some ways his greatest strengths.
Laura Linney's character seems to have gotten all of the opposite strengths from the gene pool. She is a perfectionist and a mother. She works in a bank and lives a quaint, peaceful small town life. But she is lonely also and doesn't know why. She begins two relationships with men that she has no real interest just because.
The two characters almost seem to be needing what the opposite have. She needs a bit more rebellion and spontanaeity in her life. And he needs just a little bit more structure. In some ways this is found, in others it isn't. Kenneth Lonergan, the director, isn't making a movie about people overcoming obstacles to succeed in the end. He is making a film about the graduals changes that occur everyday in one's life and how sometimes one realizes how significant these moments are and sometimes one doesn't.
Summary of You Can Count on Me
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 LonerganYou 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, clich?s, 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
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