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Actors: Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about You Can Count On Me |
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Sammy Prescott hasn't had it easy. Her parents died when she was a child leaving her and her younger brother Terry alone in the world. She is now a single mother of an eight year old son who begins imagining his father as a hero instead of knowing that he is actually a deadbeat dad who could care less. You Can Count On Me tells the story of a family who isn't ever going to be pefect but just might get by on loving eachother anyway. Keep an eye out for Mathew Broderick as the strict new married boss who winds up cheating on his pregnant wife. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonnergan this film is heart felt and moving.
--Theresa, Resident Scholar
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Writer-director Ken Lonergan crafted a quiet, honest film that with excellent acting managed to share top honors at the 2000 Sundance festival. Laura Linney plays a single mom and bank officer in a small upstate New York town whose rootless younger brother shows up to stay for a while. A prologue notes that their parents were killed in a car accident when they were young, so the siblings can't have had it easy, but the film takes a solid snapshot of their lives and relationship at this later point. Ruffalo is excellent -- edgy but goodhearted -- as the brother, Matthew Broderick and Jon Tenney fine as Linney's two suitors, and Rory Culkin simple and clean as her 8-year-old boy. Linney, a prettier version of Laura Dern (and a better actress) is incredibly fine and true. Nothing flashy or fancy about the characters or the plot, but both are honest, on the mark, and moving.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Family, loving
Yes
Special relationship with
- brother
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Coping with loss of loved one?
Yes
Coping with loss of
- Dada and Momma
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- secretary
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Unclothed?
- Slightly see-through clothes
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- caring
- sad
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- general circumstances
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- business executive
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
- 90%-100%
Body type
- (man) skinny
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Forest?
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
- Some foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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