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You Can Count on Me - by Kenneth Lonergan (Paperback)

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  • Acclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count on Me is one of the most highly praised independent films of recent years, earning many of the major screenplay awards.
  • About the Author: Kenneth Lonergan's plays include This Is Our Youth and Lobby Hero.
  • 128 Pages
  • Performing Arts, Film

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Acclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan's 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 brother's 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. Sammy's own life has its complications: she puts off an old boyfriend's proposal and begins an affair with her new boss. Together in their family home, Terry's charming irresponsibility collides with Sammy's confusion over her own actions. What remains unspoken is what they've known since they were left with only each other sixteen years before.



Review Quotes




"Funny, touching, beautifully calibrated."-Newsweek

"[You Can Count on Me] has a novelistic quality that stands with the work of Ann Beattie or Richard Russo"-Denver 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



About the Author



Kenneth Lonergan's 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.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.04 Inches (H) x 5.19 Inches (W) x .52 Inches (D)
Weight: .32 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 128
Genre: Performing Arts
Sub-Genre: Film
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Theme: Screenwriting
Format: Paperback
Author: Kenneth Lonergan
Language: English
Street Date: February 19, 2002
TCIN: 92764461
UPC: 9780375713927
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-0559
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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