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starring: Ella Jones, Anna Popplewell, Cameron Powrie, Trudie Styler, Allan Cordunerdirected by: Sandra Goldbacher
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781404932746
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 1404932747
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 40483
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Amazon.com:
Friendship can prove more complicated than romance. Me Without You follows two British girls from their 1970s preadolescence to contemporary adulthood. Holly (Michelle Williams, Dick), a shy Jewish girl with loving but bookish parents, grew up next to Marina (Anna Friel, The Land Girls), whose glamorous but unstable parents render her flamboyant but a mess inside. The girls form an alliance, each envying the other and finding solace in the relationship, but over time, they sabotage as much as support each other, sometimes at the same time. Both have an affair with a randy college professor (Kyle MacLachlan), but it's Holly's attraction to Marina's older brother Nat (Oliver Milburn) that, in the end, forces the women to redefine their lives. Me Without You is excellently performed and full of telling details. Though the heroines are often confused, the movie has a lucid clarity that is compassionate but open-eyed. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Nostalgia For Me
I'm not a movie person, I'd rather read, but every so often I look for a chick flick or foreign film that's not totally mainstream. I also want to watch a movie that my husband wouldn't or couldn't get just because he's a guy. I loved this movie. I grew up then, I remember these times and these situations, and while life wasn't perfect I had hopes and dreams and friends that I don't have now. So I say if you want some nostalgic and different chick flick watch this(AND by the way I loved Hysterical ... Read More
Rating:  - BFF
This movie captures the essence of Best Friends Forever. Your best friend is the one person you connect with and share secrets with but as you grow older the relationship must change or it becomes confining. The actors do an excellent job of showing how the relationship can be loving or painful but that imperfection is what sets this movie apart from the hollywood fluff stories. I love the 80's setting.
Rating: - It follows you home
At the end of the first time seeing this I didn't like it. Then as the days passed, I kept thinking about it and it snuck into my heart. I watched it two more times before returning it to Blockbuster.
This is a story of a not so perfect friendship. Michelle Williams plays the part of Holly, "the sweetest girl in all the world." She is convincing and charming as an intelligent, shy, overlooked beauty. Her best friend's brother, played by Oliver Milburn, is absolutely captivating and charming. ... Read More
Rating: - Friends Can Be Too Close.
Marina and Holly were best friends as children and vowed to always be together. But as they grow older, the nature of their relationship changes for the worse. Although Marina (Anna Friel) is an outgoing party girl, she seems unable to find an identity of her own and instead relies on the smarter and more introverted Holly (Michele Williams) to provide her with one. Holly is in love with Marina's brother Nat (Oliver Milburn), but Marina's jealousy has always come between them. Holly can hardly have ... Read More
Rating: - Friendships are necessary, but sometimes they are not a good thing
Friendship is an important thing in living and there are plenty of films that tell the stories of great friendships. "Me Without You" would not be one of those films, because you repeatedly have to wonder when you are watching this 2001 film whether Holly (Michelle Williams) and Marina (Anna Friel) really like each other. The two girls grew up living next door to each other in London in the early 1970s, and when they were young, dressing up and bouncing on their beds, they make a pact of eternal friendship. ... Read More
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