Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 11/23/2001(UK),
Release Date: 10/25/2007
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Tva Films
The joys and horrors of female friendship are explored in writer/director
Sandra Goldbacher's
Me Without You. Bold, brash, and fashionable
Marina (played by
Anna Popplewell as a child, and
Anna Friel as a teen and adult) comes from a broken home. Her mother,
Linda (
Trudie Styler, who executive produced
Guy Ritchie's first two films, and is also
Sting's wife) is a hip young divorcée who apologizes every time she yells at her children.
Holly (
Ella Jones as a child,
Michelle Williams of
Dawson's Creek and
Dick as a teen and adult) is a timid bookworm, mildly ashamed of her Jewishness, and easily goaded into more outrageous behavior by
Marina.
Holly's mother (
Deborah Findlay) tells her early on not to expect too much from men. She helps lower her daughter's expectations by telling her, "Some people are pretty people, and some are clever people, which is more important than looks." As girls in the early '70s,
Marina and
Holly form a pact to become "Harina," inseparable best friends. Next-door neighbors, they are never apart for long. But
Holly harbors a secret crush on
Marina's older brother,
Nat (
Oliver Milburn), and when the girls are teens, and
Marina finds out about
Holly's feelings, she does her best to keep the two apart. In college, when
Holly bonds with a lit-crit professor,
Daniel (
Kyle Maclachlan), over
Andrei Tarkovsky and
Ingmar Bergman,
Holly feels compelled to sabotage their budding relationship, by seducing
Daniel first. Eventually,
Nat, despite his lingering fondness for
Holly, gets seriously involved with a French actress,
Isabel (
Marianne Denicourt). As the girls get older, their differences become more apparent to
Holly, and she begins to question their friendship. The film covers three decades, with songs and costumes appropriate to each era.
~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
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