You Can Count On Me (2000)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Samantha Prescott	Laura Linney	½
Terry Prescott	Mark Ruffalo	½
Brian Everett	Matthew Broderick	½
Bob Steegerson	Jon Tenney
Rudy Prescott	Rory Culkin
Mabel	J. Smith-Cameron
Rudy Sr.	Josh Lucas
Sheila Seidleman	Gaby Hoffmann
Sheriff Darryl	Adam LeFevre
Ron the Priest	Kenneth Lonergan

Review

From an unmistakable indie foundation, but without the insistence on being quirky or too clever, first-time writer/director Kenneth Lonergan (penner of Analyze This) made this heartfelt and unusually perceptive drama about the conflicts between a protective small-town single mother and her younger drifter brother returning home with his bohemian lifestyle. Rarely has the intersection between the worldly and the naïve, the ambitious and the content, and the searching and the simple-minded been as seriously, unbiased and faithfully handled in American cinema, and the reputations of both small-town life (despite some valid criticism) and the increasingly fast-paced world surrounding it emerge strengthened from it all. You Can Count On Me is a warm and unassuming film with remarkable performances from Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo in the two leading roles as the siblings.