4. You Can Count on MeOh God, how much love do I have for this movie? Hunners, that's how much. Hunners of love. It's a family drama, and I know that that sounds like a pejorative, but bear with me. Mark Ruffalo plays a good-for-nothing bum, who turns up at his sister Laura Linney's house and upsets her well-ordered life. God, I'm making this sound like an absolutely terrible film. But it's not, trust me, honest, it's brilliant. It's the two lead actors that make the film for me. Laura Linney's great, but Mark Ruffalo is just incredible as the childish, sullen, self-pitying, exasperating younger brother. I mean, he's just such a convincing arsehole. He tries to do the right thing, but he just doesn't try very hard. He normally has his misdemeanours forgiven though, and it's not because he makes an effort to change or because he goes on some kind of charm offensive. Rather, it's partly because of his dopey charisma, but it's mostly down to people taking the same approach to him as his sister does to the other men in her life - "I just feel sorry for them. Isn't that ridiculous?" And that scene at the bus stop. Oh God. Funny and sad and true.
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