The character-driven drama YOU CAN COUNT ON ME served as an auspicious high water mark for two then-rising stars in Hollywood: writer-director Kenneth Lonergan, who had one movie screenplay to his credit at the time, and Dallas Star Award honoree Laura Linney, who was fresh off the high of her dramatic turn in THE TRUMAN SHOW after a string of tense thrillers such as ABSOLUTE POWER and PRIMAL FEAR.

Within a refrigerator, a battle ensues as moldy, decaying foods forgotten in the depths of the back rise up against the fresh ingredients that reside in the front.