Kenneth Lonergan

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You Can Count on Me

Kenneth Lonergan

You Can Count On Me starts with a terrible car crash that instantly orphans a little boy and his older sister. At film’s end, that boy, now a grown-up nomad and ne’er-do-well, takes off by Greyhound after a brief reunion with his sister, who lives at permanent anchor in their unspoiled hometown. The sibling saga that unreels between wrenching collision and bittersweet separation celebrates the idiosyncratic ways wounded folk like Terry (Mark Ruffalo) and Sammy (Laura Linney) put one foot in front of the other, both energized and hamstrung by the knowledge…

 
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