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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound
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 his 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 familiy's future.
"One of the best American films of 2000!" Richard Schickel, Time Magazine
Editor's Note
Set in a small town in upstate New York, YOU CAN COUNT ON ME looks at a brother and sister who grew up together as orphans but now face life with very different perspectives. Sammy (Laura Linney) works at the local bank. Most of her attention goes into raising her 8-year-old son, Rudy (Rory Culkin), and drifting in a tepid romance with Bob (Jon Tenney). The first disruption to her dutiful routine arrives in the form of new bank manager Brian (Matthew Broderick), intent on whipping his employees into shape. Then Sammy's wayward brother, Terry (Mark Ruffalo) shows up after a long absence, and her happiness quickly turns sour when she realizes he has only come to ask for money--again. But with all the elements for a backwater soap opera in place, the story instead becomes a subtle portrait of good intentions and fractured relationships.First-time director Ken Lonergan was already a noted Hollywood screenwriter (ANALYZE THIS), but he saved this screenplay for himself. Avoiding both big-budget maudlin and low-budget posturing, he steers YOU COUNT ON ME straight to the gut with an artful balance of pain and comedy. A good number of excellent performances, especially by Ruffalo as the screw-up Terry, turn the film into a remarkably honest and moving experience.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case - Sensormatic | | Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85 | | Letterbox - 1.85 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 5.0 - English | | Dolby Digital Surround - English | | Additional Release Material:
| Interviews: Cast & Crew | | Audio Commentary: Kenneth Lonergan - Director | | Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer | | Interactive Features:
| Interactive Menus | | Scene Access |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 5/23/2006 |
| Running Time: 110 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 338944 | | UPC: 00097363389446 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (2001) | | | Laura Linney, Nominee, Best Actress | | | Kenneth Lonergan, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen | |
Golden Globe (2001) | | | Laura Linney, Nominee, Best Actress | | | Kenneth Lonergan, Nominee, Best Screenplay--Motion Picture |
| Memorable Quotes| "Why are you smoking?"----Rudy|"Because it's bad. Don't ever do it."----Terry |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...This may be the best drama about what goes on behind closed doors in Anytown, USA, since AMERICAN BEAUTY....Linney is extraordinary..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 11/10/2000 p.8EMovieline's Hollywood Life
"...[Linney] in her best screen performance....Pitch-perfect script and fine direction [by] Kenneth Lonergan..." 12/01/2000 p.39 Total Film
"...A pair of charismatic performances from Linney and Mark Ruffalo....Matthew Broderick is in top form....Lonergan makes every moment count..." 04/01/2001 p.83 Sight and Sound
"...What keeps the film fresh and engrossing is the perceptive, acutely observed scripting..." 04/01/2001 p.61 Box Office
"...YOU CAN COUNT ON ME counts on great performances, and Linney, Ruffalo, Culkin and Broderick deliver..." 04/01/2000 p.231 Los Angeles Times
"...Kenneth Lonergan knows what he's written and why he's written it....Even his tiniest moments ring true, which is why the ruefully funny dramatic comedy YOU CAN COUNT ON ME is such an exceptional debut..." 11/10/2000 p.C2 Chicago Sun-Times
"...A film of great tender truth....This is one of the best movies of the year..." 11/17/2000 p.35 Wall Street Journal
"Kenneth Lonergan's debut feature finds stirring urgency, and lots of humor, in the bonds of love between a young woman and her wayward brother." 10/16/2009 |
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