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Imagine Me and You (2005)
Director: Oliver Parker
Movie review
From Time Out London
This begins in typical Brit rom-com fashion, with a wedding attended by posh, good-looking Londoners. But writer-director Ol Parker soon gives a same-sex twist to the genre when bride-to-be Rachel (Piper Perabo) falls in love at the first sight of florist Lucy (Lena Headey), while walking to the altar where her fiancé Heck (Matthew Goode) is waiting. So begins Rachel’s tentative romance with Lucy and her gradual falling out of love with the decent but dull hubby.Set in an upmarket patch of NW1 ‘Imagine Me and You’ is a glossy attempt to combine Richard Curtis-style jokes about British diffidence with the sexual-identity-crisis comedy of ‘Kissing Jessica Stein’. But the film lacks the sparkle of Curtis’s best work and its treatment of Rachel’s attraction for Lucy is strangely coy. But the American Perabo (doing a good English accent) and Headey are likable leads – and Goode brings a touching vulnerability to his role as the luckless Heck. If they ever remake ‘Brief Encounter’, he’d be great as the spurned husband.
Author: Edward Lawrenson
Time Out London Issue 1869: June 14-21 2006
User reviews of this film
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- LB said...
- Posted on May 22 2011 19:31 Have to totally disagree with the reviews so far. This is a lovely film; perfect for a wet Sunday afternoon. Funny, great acting, lovely shots of London and two leads who are drop-dead gorgeous. What more could you want?
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- Tina said...
- Posted on Oct 24 2007 13:20 This was a good, but not a great film. Not sure if i'd recommend it.
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Cast & crew
Director: Oliver Parker
Producer: Sophie Balhetchet, Barnaby Thompson, Andro Steinborn
Cast: Piper Perabo, Matthew Goode, Lena Headey, Anthony Stewart Head, Celia Imrie, Sue Johnston full cast
Rated: 12A
Duration: 94 mins
UK Release: Jun 16 2006
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