You Can Count on Me

It's rare to get a good movie about the touchy adult relationship of a sister and brother. Rarer still for the director to be more fascinated by the process than the outcome. This is one of the best movies of the year.

A humanistic gem of a movie, with unforgettable performances from Linney and Ruffalo.

A sensitive, intimate, enormously touching drama.

Melancholy little gem of a movie.

It's the sum of things not spoken, things too painful to express, that's the heart of this quietly moving drama.

It's a compassionate story about what makes people tick and what really matters.

Visually flat and uninteresting and too often feels like a (leisurely paced) filmed play.

You Can Count on Me is one of the best 'slice of life' movies that I have ever seen. Laura Linney is at her usual best, perfectly cast for the role and Mark Ruffalo, is extraordinarily raw and funny and is key to most of the unforgettable moments in the film. Kenneth Lonergan has written a refreshingly original script and pulled it off exceptionally well despite having two siblings fighting with the vicissitudes of life as the protagonists.

Reverent performances - American playwright, screenwriter and director Kenneth Lonergan's feature film debut tells the story of sibling couple Terry and Sammy who lost their parents in a car accident when they were children. Twenty years later, Sammy still lives in their childhood home in Scottsville, New York and is a single mum working at the local bank. She has not heard from Terry in months, but when he suddenly shows up in town telling her that he has no money and no place to go, she invites him to stay with her and introduced him to her son Rudy. This gratifying and compassionate family drama about an estranged brother and sister who are reunited at their home town two decades after a life altering incident, is hands down one of the most wonderful American independent films i've ever seen. "You Can Count on Me", which was shoot in Margaretville, New York, executive produced by Martin Scorsese and honored with numerous film awards during the turn of the millennium, deals with existentialistic themes in a more humane than theoretical way and is a dialog-driven character study strengthened by it's authentic and milieu depictions. The film is wittingly written and acutely directed by Kenneth Lonergan who gives an uncommonly realistic portrayal of a devoting and deeply affectionate relationship between a brother and sister who has chosen opposite paths in life. Mark Ruffalo and Laura Linney interprets Terry and Sammy with striking conviction and their reverent performances, which i would place on any list over the best performances given in the last decade, is alone reason enough to see this humorous and thoughtful film which also contains great scenes between Mark Ruffalo and Rory Culkin and between Laura Linney and Matthew Broderick. The varied and mood-setting music works well, and this is the kind of film that reaches our hearts and conveys something pivotal about basic life values.

Lenny, the thirty-year-old son of a heart surgeon, is forced by his father, after yet another transgression, to take care of David, a teenager suffering from a disease that leaves him little time to live. Not lacking financial means, he will have to make him draw up a wish list and fulfill them all. Some may be satisfied with the money but others need a lot more. Film that tries to excite, but turns out to be didactic and to forcibly seek tenderness.

This is an easy watch, if a bit of a slow watch. It was interesting to see Mark Ruffalo in an early role. It reminded me of a film shown during the day on TV. There's not a great deal that goes on and its pretty predictable but I did find myself smirking at times. I think it mainly highlights that some adults don't act entirely like adults, that we're all flawed and most anyone can let us down in different ways, which is a little depressing. Its about the immaturity of adults but not in a raucous way. It wasn't entirely a negative film, there were some nice scenes but it certainly wasn't a memorable either. Its an ok film.

یک فیلم آموزنده اجتماعی در گونه درام با بازی خوب لورا لینی و مارک روفالو و فیلنامه خوب کنت لنرگن بودکه به خوبی به معضل طلاق و زندگی بی بند و باری و اسیب های ناشی از اون اشاره میکنه