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.
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 -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 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 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 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 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