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You Can Count on Me: Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. With Amy Ryan, Michael Countryman, Adam LeFevre, Halley Feiffer. A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.
Sammy : Maybe it was better when they screamed at you from the box for having sex with your married boss, they told you what a terrible thing it was, they were really mean to you. Maybe it would be better if you just told me that I'm endangering my immortal soul and that if I don't stop, I'm gonna burn in hell.
With Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED a little movie like You Can Count on Me , the story of a 30ish woman and her slightly younger brother who lost their parents in a car crash when they were kids. Now they're adults with divergent lives, and when the roving Terry ...
Mar 23, 2001 · Now writer-director Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count On Me - a handsome, well-acted and often very moving family drama with an Academy award-nominated performance from Laura Linney - seems ...
You Can Count on Me. Rob Mackie: Writer-director Kenneth Lonergan has a wonderful eye for detail, and his actors are allowed to shine in parts where expressions and glances give you whole, real ...
Feb 19, 2002 · Acclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me is one of the most highly praised independent films of recent years, earning many of the major screenplay awards. This is the lovingly drawn story of a sister and brother’s complicated, fragile, but somehow enduring bond. Sammy and Terry Prescott were orphaned as children.
A particularly good scene is his interaction with his sister's inept Pastor (portrayed by the film's writer and director, Kenneth Lonergan). It becomes clear during the course of this scene that Terry is a much more intelligent, self-aware and thoughtful person than he normally portrays himself to be.
