Imagine Me & You is more about fidelity and respect - or rather the lack thereof. It doesn't matter if the characters are gay, straight or bi. Cheating is cheating.
Imagine Me & You (2006)
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Reviews Counted:92
Fresh:29
Rotten:63
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Aside from its lesbian theme, Imagine Me & You can only offer more of the same generic rom-com cliches.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for some language and sexual material.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jan 27, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $533,944
Synopsis: A mainstream romantic-comedy with a twist, Ol Parker's IMAGINE ME & YOU stands out from the generic pack thanks to its gay-themed subject matter. The movie is as light and fluffy as the average... A mainstream romantic-comedy with a twist, Ol Parker's IMAGINE ME & YOU stands out from the generic pack thanks to its gay-themed subject matter. The movie is as light and fluffy as the average movie in the genre, but as viewers scoop a mouthful of popcorn they may find their expectations subtly altered. Set in London, the movie begins with the wedding of Rachel (Piper Perabo) and Heck (Matthew Goode). Although they seem blissfully happy, Rachel is masking some Sapphic thoughts after eyeing Luce, the wedding florist (Lena Headey), during the ceremony. As luck would have it, one of Heck's male friends, Cooper (Darren Boyd), has fallen for Luce, allowing her and Rachel to meet socially and to consider consummating their desire for one another. While much of Parker's film follows a rather formulaic romantic-comedy route, it takes a surprising turn when Luce and Rachel get together and have no intention of breaking up. A reunion between Rachel and Heck is never on the cards, and it's to Parker's credit that he wasn't sucked into ending the film with an affirmation that the heterosexual world is where his lead female character belongs. IMAGINE ME & YOU sees Hollywood taking a tiny step towards embracing homosexuality in a thoroughly mainstream movie, and for that it should be commended. [More]
Starring: Piper Perabo, Matthew Goode, Lena Headey, Anthony Head
Starring: Piper Perabo, Matthew Goode, Lena Headey, Anthony Head, Eva Birthistle, Celia Imrie, Darren Boyd, Sue Johnston
Director: Oliver Parker
Director: Oliver Parker
Producer: Lynda La Plante, Barnaby Thompson
Composer: Alex Heffes
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Reviews for Imagine Me & You
The film sidesteps the usual love triangle romantic comedy formula of hurling itself into all-out praise of fresh, vibrant infatuation by treating it as a zero-sum game that requires a loser.
Although Imagine Me & You (never much liked that song) tries to tap into a popular theme, we never believe that Rachel and Luce are the slightest bit interested in one another.
If you're in the mood for a moonstruck trifle with a drizzly London setting, this might not be such a bad choice. All that's required is that you be as open-minded as the movie is open-hearted.
Perabo and Headey sizzle with unrequited desires, and the film, directed by Ol Parker, is often hilarious.
Imagine Me & You has its charms, but for a movie about loving radically, it sure plays it safe.
Imagine Me & You shamelessly embraces every romantic-comedy cliché in the book.
Compared to the incredibly perfect adventures of these two British girls in love, everything else pales, especially the clueless men around them. Check that. The men are OK as long as they cry and take their emasculation like men.
The film is so concerned with squeezing laughs out of the audience that it barely takes time to make sense of the circumstances.
If only Ennis from "Brokeback Mountain" could hop off the screen, wander next door and watch "Imagine Me and You."
The film flirts with emotional honesty much of the way, until Parker realizes he might have to leave a character or two sad, angry, lonely or unfulfilled. Then the script turns to cotton candy, invalidating the honest first half.
Most of the running time is devoted to sitcom devices involving family members, friends, double meanings, close escapes and sincere heart-to-hearts.
I guess there's something progressive going on when a lesbian love story gets to be just as dreadful and tacky as most straight ones.
We need a villain instead of a victim if the happy romance between Rachel and Luce is going to work.
It's not hard to like these people and to empathize with their romantic plight.
If you can't guess how the whole thing ends than you clearly haven't seen enough of these movies and probably deserve to sit through another.
In short, it's an absolute louse of a film -- 94 minutes of unimaginable, unspeakable awfulness.
The characterizations are wooden, the interaction maudlin and the plot totally predictable.
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