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You Can Count On Me (1999)
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Movie Review by Zara 
February 8th, 2007
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Torn
I'm not sure if I really like this movie or not. I'm going to give it a marginal to good rating, mostly because I love Mark Ruffalo so much and he really is the best part of this movie.
It focuses on a sister who is a single mom working at a bank and leading a boring lifestyle. When a new boss comes in who starts screwing with her boring but safe routine, things shake up a little for her. When her slacker of a brother shows up, things get even more out of sorts. It is the moment when she starts reevaluating what she wants from life. It is a moment that I can understand.
However... the movie is wildly uneven with moments that jump back and forth between wanting the characters to be portrayed as unaffected as possible to shooting back in time to blame some of what they do on what happened in their past. While I do believe that people are a product of their pasts, I think that what happens to them shouldn't completely rule every decision that they make. The movie can't seem to make up its mind which direction it really wants to head.
It's a quiet character study that got a great deal of critical attention when it was released (including an Oscar nomination for Linney) but it's yet another one of those movies that doesn't live up to the credit that it was given.
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