You Can Count on Me: A Screenplay

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Acclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergans You Can Count on Me is one of the most highly praised independent films of recent years, earning many of the major screenplay awards.

This is the lovingly drawn story of a sister and brothers complicated, fragile, but somehow enduring bond. Sammy and Terry Prescott were orphaned as children. Sammy, now the single mother of a young son, has stayed in their hometown and is an officer at the local bank. Terry has become something of a drifter, surfacing only when he needs money. Sammys own life has its complications: she puts off an old boyfriends proposal and begins an affair with her new boss. Together in their family home, Terrys charming irresponsibility collides with Sammys confusion over her own actions. What remains unspoken is what theyve known since they were left with only each other sixteen years before.

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Funny, touching, beautifully calibrated.Newsweek

[You Can Count on Me] has a novelistic quality that stands with the work of Ann Beattie or Richard RussoDenver Post

Accomplished . . . perceptive writing . . . Kenneth Lonergan has created an artful tale . . . [that] creates inescapably real characters and allows them to be themselves.Los Angeles Times

A wry, beautifully observed story.Roger Ebert & The Movies

Superbly executed . . .Enormously touching. . . A deftly observed drama.Variety

Funny, moving, and immensely satisfying.Chicago Tribune

Perfectly pitched. . .gets its characters and their world exactly and indelibly right.The New York Times

An intensely moving family drama . . . [that] makes us feel we truly have entered its characters' lives.The San Francisco Chronicle

Exceptionally thoughtful and moving.USA Today

Author Bio

Kenneth Lonergans plays include This Is Our Youth and Lobby Hero. He wrote the original screenplay for Analyze This. You Can Count On Me marked his directorial debut. He lives in New York City.