Overview
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
I scour the internet looking for quality indie dramas. One movie review site offered up this film as a comparable to a movie that i adore – The Skeleton Twins. That’s all I needed to give it a go.
Things started off ok – it was interesting to see a young Mark Ruffalo and Laura Linney. Seeing Rory Culkin in the movie took a little bit to get used to as he looks and sounds so much like his brother in Home Alone. The background music was a little off-putting – it reminded me of the cheesy music that filled the background in The Rainmaker.
Then something subtle and wonderful happened: the story really took off. When I say subtle, I mean subtle. What felt like a cookie-cutter plot was anything but. Towards the end something occurred to me: this movie is sneaky-good.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews You Can Count on Me
Movie title: You Can Count on Me
Movie description: A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
Date published: 2019-01-25
Director(s): Kenneth Lonergan
Actor(s): Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Jon Tenney, Rory Culkin, Halley Feiffer, J. Smith-Cameron, Josh Lucas, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Ryan, Adam LeFevre, Kenneth Lonergan, Nina Garbiras, Kim Parker, Michael Countryman, Whitney Vance, Peter Kerwin, Betsy Aidem, Lisa Altomare, Richard Hummer, Allan Gill, Brian Ramage
Genre: Drama, Romance
My Review
I scour the internet looking for quality indie dramas. One movie review site offered up this film as a comparable to a movie that i adore – The Skeleton Twins. That’s all I needed to give it a go.
Things started off ok – it was interesting to see a young Mark Ruffalo and Laura Linney. Seeing Rory Culkin in the movie took a little bit to get used to as he looks and sounds so much like his brother in Home Alone. The background music was a little off-putting – it reminded me of the cheesy music that filled the background in The Rainmaker.
Then something subtle and wonderful happened: the story really took off. When I say subtle, I mean subtle. What felt like a cookie-cutter plot was anything but. Towards the end something occurred to me: this movie is sneaky-good.
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My Review - 8.75/10
8.75/10