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One Of The Best Movies I’ve Seen This Year." - Roger Ebert, Ebert & Roeper
And The Movies Winner of the Best Picture and Best Screenplay awards at the 2000
Sundance Film Festival, "You Can Count On Me" has been hailed as "the best
American movie this year."* Laura Linney, in her Oscar. nominated role, and Mark
Ruffalo star as grown-up siblings who couldn’t be more different. While
conservative Sammy (Linney) stayed in her quiet hometown, rebellious Terry
(Ruffalo) was on the road, drifting in and out of trouble. When Terry suddenly
comes to visit, his presence has a profound influence on Sammy’s world. As Terry
forms a special friendship with Sammy’s precocious eight-year-old son, Rudy
(Rory Culkin), Sammy rediscovers her passion for life, entertaining a marriage
proposal from her boyfriend (Jon Tenney) while having a fling with her boss
(Matthew Broderick). But when Terry’s behavior becomes disruptive, Sammy must
finally confront the choices of the past...and make new ones to renew her
family’s future. |