Imagine Me & You
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.
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- Cast:
- Piper Perabo , Lena Headey , Matthew Goode , Celia Imrie , Anthony Stewart Head , Darren Boyd , Sue Johnston
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Best movie ever!
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
In my opinion this movie is in the same league as the greatest of british romcoms. This is a warm and sincere romantic movie that captures that gorgeous feeling of falling in love.
Guys expecting to see lots of lesbian action are in for a surprise. Instead of an erotic comedy we see a heartwarming, beautiful, funny and fresh romantic comedy with a gifted script and sweet premise. Piper Perabo plays Rachel, a freshly married women in London who falls for Luce (the breathtakingly beautiful Lena Headey), the florist for her wedding. Their relationship starts as a casual friendship before finding out that they have a deep love for each other, which comes with challenges in order to develop a relationship. This movie has sappy written all over it. Surprisingly, writer and director Ol Parker skips through all the clichés and develops a story in which we care for the characters and experience a unique relationship develop throughout the course of the film. The performances are all sweet and funny, with each character not getting carried away with themselves or trying to be something they're not. Each actor is gifted with a humble performance and brings the very British-like script to life in a subtle and content fashion. This is the kind of movie you come into feeling ambiguous but leave feeling great. It's a terrific tale of a challenged love that never fights to be expressed.
Everyone has their guilty pleasures. Unfortunately for me, mine are the tasteless, cliché romantic comedies that Hollywood keeps churning out. Well that, and of course, Mean Girls. Imagine Me And You has just made it into my list of 'Guilty Pleasure Movies'. In this movie, a newlywed bride (Piper Perabo) becomes infatuated with another woman (Lena Headey), who questions her sexual orientation, promoting a stir among the bride's family and friends. Then again the movie caption of "There goes the bride" and its poster is clearly misleading because one would assume that the bride runs off with someone else at the wedding itself. Nonetheless, no matter how cliché and boring the storyline is, it was a watchable movie.There was very little deliberate, calculated development to the storyline at all. I felt that the movie focused too much on the bride's problematic relationship with her husband, rather than her risky affair with Luce. So, by the end of the movie when she runs off looking for the woman she loves (spoiler: they end up happy together. Who would've guessed?), I hadn't known that her infatuation had already turned into a full blown romance. The writing was pretty lacking in that aspect, but it was an interesting romantic comedy anyway. Well, the whole idea of a married woman falling in love with someone else at her wedding is a little exhausted, but I guess the writer thought 'I know how to twist things around! Let's make them lesbians!'Alas, the soundtrack is predictable as well. Honestly, I would give the movie a 5.5/10, simply because of the effort at trying to make this movie less uninteresting and more marketable. Also because this is a very 'shark week' movie, movies whereby women cry along to once a month with a pint of ice cream. As much as it pains me to say this, I think I'll be joining that group of women.
This is one of the dullest films I have ever seen. It's a romantic comedy with little romance and little comedy.Rachel (Piper Perabo) is a young woman happily marrying her long-time boyfriend Hector (Matthew Goode). But at their wedding Rachel meets and starts to fall for Luce (Lena Headey), their lesbian florist. There's sexual tensions between them and Heck tries to figure out why his wife is becoming so distant. Rachel must then decide who she will stay with, Luce or Heck? This movie was SO boring. I don't think I've ever written a synopsis that short, and that's because NOTHING happens! Seriously, the majority of the movie is the characters doing mundane tasks like taking care of things at work, grocery shopping, and eating dinner. The main bonding moment was Luce teaching Rachel how to yell obscene insults at a soccer match. Just melts your heart doesn't it? They had little chemistry. I didn't care about either of them. I watched this film a few days ago and I could not remember EITHER of the characters' names when I was writing this; it was that boring and forgettable. We knew nothing about the characters. Luce was a florist, and a lesbian. Rachel was a closeted(?) lesbian married to a man. Honestly, the only person I really felt sympathetic towards was Hector! Also, it must be said that when the most sympathetic character in a lesbian film is a man I think you messed up. I mean, here's this sweet guy trying to bond with his wife and she's making out with the florist from their freaking WEDDING. Speaking of, there are only two small kissing scenes. It's a tame movie, and was only rated R because of homophobia. Imagine Me & You was so devoid of emotion, character and plot that I am truly baffled as to why some people consider this one of the "best" lesbian movies. It's a crap movie, and there's little to no passion or connection between the two women. The only interesting character was Rachel's eccentric little sister who was in all of three scenes. I'd much rather have watched a movie about her! There was also only about one or two chuckles in the whole movie. Yeah I'd skip this one. There are many better films, and better lesbian romances.