Indie Film Highlight: YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (2000)

Every Sunday, I'll post a quick video -- and podcast -- about an indie film from at least a year ago. Today's film: YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (2000).

Director: Kenneth Lonergan

Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan

Cast: Laura Linney; Kenneth Lonergan; Mark Ruffalo; Matthew Broderick

SYNOPSIS

Sammy is a single mother who is extremely protective of her 8-year old son. She is satisfied with living in the small town she grew up in and working in a local bank. When her brother Terry visits he fits the void in the life of both her and her son. Temporarily free of the constraints of single motherhood she begins to break free of her normal routine. In a string of traumatic events Sammy is torn between helping her brother and her maternal instinct to protect her son from getting hurt.

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