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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>Movie Review <font size="4"><br>You Can Count on Me</font> <br>by David Ng</font> <p><i><font size="6"><b>Y</b></font>ou Can Count on Me</i> has all the ingredients of a soppy hugfest: repressed sibling rivalry, plucky single parenthood, and a wrenching good-bye scene, all of which is set against a small upstate New York town where flannel is abundant and the sheriff still makes house calls. What writer/director Kenneth Lonergan and his two leads (Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo) do with this bland set-up is alarmingly perceptive and real, a small miracle in this year of forced Hollywood feel-goodism. Downplaying the obvious, <i>You Can Count on Me</i> finds truth in the details. It’s a slight movie, but its intelligence and precision will uplift you. (<i>You Can Count on Me</i> won both the Best Picture and Best Screenplay awards at Sundance 2000.) <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>