A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 30 wins & 43 nominations total
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- TriviaKenneth Lonergan plays Minister Ron in two major scenes counseling Terry at Sammy's house, and then counseling Sammy in his office. Since Lonergan had a lot of dialogue in those two scenes, he turned over the directing to Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo, respectively.
- GoofsThe pancakes on the son's dish skip around from side to side in each shot as he and his mom are talking.
- Crazy creditsJeffrey Sharp would like to dedicate his work on this film to his mother, Virginia Sharp Albright, with love and admiration.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: The Beach/Snow Day/Holy Smoke (2000)
- SoundtracksAus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben
from St. Matthew Passion
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Rheinische Kantorei (Choir) and Das Kleine Konzert (Orchestra)
Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg
Under License from Universal Music Special Markets
Featured review
you can definitely count on this movie
In one of the many manifestations of the power of the indie flicks during the past ten years, rebellious young Terry Prescott (Mark Ruffalo) comes to visit his sister Samantha (Laura Linney) and her son Rudy (Rory Culkin), upsetting their normal lives. "You Can Count on Me" is very much a script- and character-driven movie, a far cry from a Hollywood cliché movie. As for the characters themselves, Samantha and Rudy are quite respectable; Terry is hard to classify, as he almost seems to be wasting his life but is the sort of rebel who we all wish to be; Matthew Broderick - as Samantha's boss - made my skin crawl, and I suspect that you'll feel the same.
All in all, this is certainly a movie that I recommend, and I'm eager to see Kenneth Lonergan's next movie.
All in all, this is certainly a movie that I recommend, and I'm eager to see Kenneth Lonergan's next movie.
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- lee_eisenberg
- Sep 12, 2006
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,200,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $9,416,804
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $118,170
- Nov 12, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $11,242,521
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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