What an excellent film! The last scene is so friggen good it hurts!

Excellent, absorbing drama! Wonderful film!

This movie makes you forget the typical hollywood formula. You follow these characters (albeit slowly) through the realities of life and come to care for them and identify with them along the way. Don't miss it!

Intelligent, sensitive insight into the human condition in life. Ruffalo deserves this years oscar for best actor...he was amazing!

A beautiful story that should be seen with your brother or sister. Laura Linney is one of the most underrated actresses in the biz. She brings a nice subtlety to her parts that deserves attention.

A nice combination of comedy and drama that made me wish I had a sister. Laura Linney is a great actress and I'm glad she is getting more opportunities to show her work to larger audiences.

This tender, touching, beautifully realised study of the overwhelming influence of the family on our lives restores your faith in a movie industry obsessed with action. This is a movie for grown ups and you won't see anything more profound for a very long time. Superb performances from the entire cast but especially from Linney and Ruffalo and sensitive direction from Lonergan who has also penned a screenplay of great sincereity and truth.… Expand

Very captivating. Great acting, characters. Believable and endearing. This movie will stick with you.

The producers of American Beauty should have seen this film before they wrote their pile of c___! This is what a movie about relationships should look like. It was real.

There are rarely films so good that they're hard to watch, not becuse their sad or depressing, but because you're dreading the moment when the credits start to roll, "You Can Count On Me" is such a film.

Touching and intimate film that allows viewers to observe the intricate and sometimes difficult bond between a brother and sister.

An excellent production, emotional yet powerful drama with all the elements of real life events. For those, who can't stand scenes with longer dialogues, this may not be the film to watch, but if you want to see real behavior from simple characters, this is the movie to watch. Depicts on a bro/sis relationship in a way no other film has done before.

I know how pretentious this sounds but I liked the religious ambiguity of the movie...Terry's view on life is so well presented and rings true of most people I know --especially when he talks to the priest--and the priest is not a foreboding feature either--he's reasonable-- the writing is awesome--ken lonergan's commentary is great! really worth a listen--see this movie!

It ended a perfect Christmas night.

Rarely is it so much fun to watch the interaction of characters on screen - not because their actions are so unbelievable (though they are almost always unpredictable), but more because they are all so grounded in reality and truth.

Reverent performances - American playwright, screenwriter and director Kenneth Lonergan's feature film debut tells the story of sibling couple Terry and Sammy who lost their parents in a car accident when they were children. Twenty years later, Sammy still lives in their childhood home in Scottsville, New York and is a single mum working at the local bank. She has not heard from Terry in months, but when he suddenly shows up in town telling her that he has no money and no place to go, she invites him to stay with her and introduced him to her son Rudy.

This gratifying and compassionate family drama about an estranged brother and sister who are reunited at their home town two decades after a life altering incident, is hands down one of the most wonderful American independent films i've ever seen. "You Can Count on Me", which was shoot in Margaretville, New York, executive produced by Martin Scorsese and honored with numerous film awards during the turn of the millennium, deals with existentialistic themes in a more humane than theoretical way and is a dialog-driven character study strengthened by it's authentic and milieu depictions.

The film is wittingly written and acutely directed by Kenneth Lonergan who gives an uncommonly realistic portrayal of a devoting and deeply affectionate relationship between a brother and sister who has chosen opposite paths in life. Mark Ruffalo and Laura Linney interprets Terry and Sammy with striking conviction and their reverent performances, which i would place on any list over the best performances given in the last decade, is alone reason enough to see this humorous and thoughtful film which also contains great scenes between Mark Ruffalo and Rory Culkin and between Laura Linney and Matthew Broderick. The varied and mood-setting music works well, and this is the kind of film that reaches our hearts and conveys something pivotal about basic life values.… Expand