The (Now-Overrated) ILX Top 100 Films of the 2000s Poll Results

mcshane scares me in this film

"he scares me in just about everything he's in"

Terrifying in Scoop.

ach - beat to the punch (again)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/youcancount.jpg

even if Linney never made a good movie ever again, I would have to love her because of You Can Count on Me.

- horseshoe

Amid a renaissance of stories about child abuse, neglect, and abandonment, this one somehow got to the heart of things by focusing on how children might grow up (or not) without any parents at all. Its
classical score was a break form indie-film indie-rock cliche, but its most musical aspect was its story, and the rushes of talk between characters.

- Pete Scholtes

There was once a great little indie film called You Can Count On Me, which was just a quiet story with two great performances by Mark Ruffalo and Laura Linney. It was a modest success, and cost feck all to make. The next two films they made after that were The Mothman Prophecies (Linney) and The Last Castle (Ruffalo). Which do both suck ass.

- Andrew Farrell

#58

You Can Count On Me
Kenneth Lonergan
2000
United States
(308 points, 12 votes)

YES!

?!?!!?

first movie i've not even heard of

really strongo?

great film btw.

are you serious?

it's a good drama.

haha

doppelgangerposts.

That's cuz Laura Linney doesn't eat fetus DUMPLINGS! in it.

laura linney looks super young in that shot

saving this for later on
http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab83/homegrowndub/6JCmz1.jpg

haha of course i'm serious! i gotta be sold seriously hardcore on anything that might be described as an indie-scale american drama.

burned one too many times

ok uh... IT IS SOME HARDCORE BRO-SIS DRAMA.

I've seen it and it's seemed aggressively okay to me.

if you're gonna call something bad just do it dude

no i just meant to explain my ignorance

i was talking to a in sf

Wow, today's Laura Linney 46th birthday.

Did Ken Lonergan make anything else?

really, as i get older, and my free time dwindles ever more, if there's not a dead body in the first 20 minutes you've probably lost me

i am what i am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_%28film%29

same kind of bleak territory as, i dunno, the ice storm, but it feels so strange and unique becuase it's so light. i dunno if "light" is even the right word, it just doesn't have the heavy heavyosity of similar films. for this kind of indie-family territory it's very much not "DO YOU SEE"

i do love mark ruffalo that lovable schlub

really, as i get older, and my free time dwindles ever more, if there's not a dead body in the first 20 minutes you've probably lost me

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, February 5, 2010 5:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya but what about the movies u watch

"if you're gonna call something bad just do it dude"

It's not bad. . . it's just not a film I can imagine thinking as I was making my best flicks of any decade (or year) "damn that was amazing, can't forget that touching little indie drama."

the ruffian is really good in this, prob my favourite ruff rider role (next to zodiac)

i love movies with that kinda touch. i tend to hate family dramas that end on a note of unexpected death or gloom, like punishment-for-sins kinda shit like in the ice storm or american beauty.

Maybe it's just cuz I've seen it more recently, but not much separates this and the Savages in my mind.

It's not bad. . . it's just not a film I can imagine thinking as I was making my best flicks of any decade (or year)

Yeah - that's how I felt about sexy beast.

haha i was just gonna make a reference to the savages as my most recent "what am i doing...i could be watching ufc" moment.

yeah, i love that the structure of the film is delimited by a certain arbitrary amount of time, not some kind of crisis-resolution-growth plot bullshit. we join this family when ruffalo arrives, we stick with them while he's around whether they figure anything out or not, and it ends when he leaves.

sorry, spoiler i guess

actually that might have been skinheadoche, ny </ dr. morbius>

So many great little naturalistic details in that movie: The way Laura Linney giddily waves at Mark Ruffalo from inside the restaurant window as he approaches. The way he off-handedly swats at a fly in that long heart-to-heart between them on the back porch. An emotionally honest movie with real, lived-in characters, and my favorite of 2000.

You Can Count On Me placing makes me like ILx a little bit more.

never even heard of this movie. might watch for the Ruff tho - love that guy

ruffa-LO, not rufftho

I tend not to like movies with a lot of "little naturalistic details," but I trust there's more going on in YCCOM than that. Still haven't seen it.

is the ruff the rudd of dramas for universal love?

ruff love

he should do a movie with McG

eric, you seem to be watching different miike films than I am, although they appear to have the same names

"box" from three is soooooo much more than a ghost story, it's a surreal masterpiece, unconscious filmmaking in the best sense of the word

(fwiw my Ruff love based almost entirely on Eternal Sunshine and Zodiac I'm sure he's in some shitty movies too haha)

would u describe urself as a ruffalo soldier

the real question obviously--is morbs enough of a fan to be called 'ruffalo bill'

i'm in my ruffalo stance

slightly hunched over to accentuate my paunch