Drama

You Can Count on Me

2000
7.5 / 10
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.
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How could anyone call this film the worst they've seen in years? The acting wooden, the characters uninteresting???? "You can count on me" is storytelling at its finest. It should've won best screenplay because Lonergan's writing and directing is pure, honest...
A sister and her brother, both grown, see the world in ways that are significantly different. The divorced sister and her young son live in the small town she grew up in. These are her roots. Nothing exciting happens here, but her routine life offers security...
I don't. This is just one of Those Movies, y'know? Shot for shot it's great. The cinematography definitely knows what it's doing and it's VERY mindful of itself in such a way that we can ignore it if we're not paying attention to it. As such, the camera steps...
Not all stories need a crisis for the characters to resolve or an issue to press to be compelling. Some stories are just slices of our workaday worlds, packaged and presented in such a way as to entertain us. "You Can Count on Me" is one such story, and its ci...
you can count on me is a truly refreshing movie. the most enchanting aspect of the movie is its true to life characters and brilliant acting. the characters are human, there are no angels here, no evil devils - just real people, with real failings and real we...
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