Search - You Can Count On Me [Circuit City Exclusive] [Checkpoint] on DVD

Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Drug Content Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 06/26/2001 Format: DVD SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Drama, Reunion Films, Family Drama See Also: You Can Count on Me

Kenneth Lonergan, the co-screenwriter for Analyze This (1999), makes his directorial debut with this sensitive portrait of a pair of grown siblings. Sammy and Terry Prescott (Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo) were orphaned as children after their parents were killed in a car accident. Since then, the two have taken drastically divergent paths. Sammy is a single mother who leads a quiet, stable life in a small town in upstate New York. A fiercely protective mother, she shields her young son Rudy (Rory Culkin) from all information about his absentee father. She is also involved with Bob (Jon Tenney), a well-meaning but less-than-exciting mate, both in and out of bed. Terry, by contrast, is a troubled, self-destructive soul eking out a nomadic existence. When he abandons his pregnant girlfriend to borrow money from his sister, Sammy finds her stable world disrupted. A bond soon develops between Terry and Rudy; over the objections of his mother, Terry takes the tyke fishing and shares old family secrets. Meanwhile, Terry's presence inspires Sammy to break out of her quiet life. This film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Laura Linney - Sammy Prescott
Mark Ruffalo - Terry Prescott
Rory Culkin - Rudy
Matthew Broderick - Brian
Jon Tenney - Bob