I've been wanting to watch this film ever since I saw Lonergans masterpiece Manchester by the Sea last year.

Manchester was easily one of my favorites of last year and one I think about a lot. I'm considering putting it on my 100 of all time, I have some good memories of me and my friends seeing it twice, (I know, weird movie to have pleasant memories with but most of my friends are also artistic type film buffs who appreciate good movies so, yknow.)

I think Manchester is a pretty perfectly crafted film, a very powerful and harrowing film that stayed with me.

I was excited to see this film, and I have to say it's probably the best…

There is the special bond that you have with your sibling. But when are the elder one you are always become kind of the protector of the younger one. Every fuck up, mistake, glory...anything they achieve in the world makes you proud of them. But sometimes you see the mistakes you made reflecting from them and that time you kind of step in and take control of the situation because you don't want them to make mistakes you did, but in their eyes you become a hypocrite an enemy for a while but you gotta do all things in your power to stop them from these evil things.

Sammy is a single mother working at a bank. Everyday she picks…

Kenneth Lonergan had only been a playwright before deciding to delve into filmmaking with You Can Count On Me. He saw something in the orphaned brother and sister characters he created at an earlier point and thought they could make the transformation into a larger project. He had the strong writing to build a foundation for memorable characters, but the overall impact his film debut was going to have pretty much rested on the shoulders of the wise-ness of the casting. Lonergan was extremely fortunate to get such spot-on performers as Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo to flesh out his characters. The film works wonderfully, and mostly because of these two great actors.

Linney was coming off some supporting roles…

I've been wanting to watch this film ever since I saw Lonergans masterpiece Manchester by the Sea last year.

Manchester was easily one of my favorites of last year and one I think about a lot. I'm considering putting it on my 100 of all time, I have some good memories of me and my friends seeing it twice, (I know, weird movie to have pleasant memories with but most of my friends are also artistic type film buffs who appreciate good movies so, yknow.)

I think Manchester is a pretty perfectly crafted film, a very powerful and harrowing film that stayed with me.

I was excited to see this film, and I have to say it's probably the best…

i can never fully connect w/ lonergan's movies in the way i know i'm supposed. intellectually i can synthesize & sympathize w/ the situations, but that's not why he crafts all these stories around trauma. it's probably bc he makes great nuanced scripts & films them with the finesse of a lifetime movie.

there's a lot to love about this movie. nuanced characters, mark ruffalo's beautiful performance, all of his scenes w/ rudy jr. ruffalo's character is the perfect compliment to rudy because he's semi-infantile in his own life, unsettled & irresponsible, so he can easily get along w/ an 8 year old in a no-walls type of way. he's never acting like an Adult in rudy's presence. and in this way he's…

This is the first directed film by Kenneth Lonergan, who also wrote and directed the amazing Manchester by the Sea. Sammy and Terry's parents die in a car accident when they are very young. Sammy remains in the same small town where she raises her son Rudy by herself. When her brother comes back she has to deal with the issues that come with him along with a sudden proposal from her boyfriend and an affair she has started with her new boss. Laura Linney plays Sammy and she is absolutely wonderful, she captures the struggles of being a single mother but she isn't a pushover and she doesn't make it sappy. Rory Culkin (the youngest of the acting Culkin…