If you loved You Can Count on Me, try Manchester by the Sea
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Kenneth Lonergan, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to You Can Count on Me, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Manchester by the Sea is
New England coast, winter, a frozen harbor. A brother's death, a nephew's eyes, a painful return home. Lonergan handles the aftermath with subtlety.

