Mark Ruffalo helps produce movies.
 Ruffalo's mother and stepfather live in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he and his family occasionally spend their summers
 Through a chance meeting with writer Kenneth Lonergan, Ruffalo began collaborating with him and appeared in several of his plays, including the original cast of This is Our Youth (1996), which led to Ruffalo's role as Laura Linney's character's brother in Lonergan's Academy Award-nominated 2000 film You Can Count on Me

