Me Without You |  | Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Actors: Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Ella Jones, Anna Popplewell, Cameron Powrie
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 33331
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1404932755
UPC: 043396010499
EAN: 9781404932753
ASIN: B000093W4U
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: June 17, 2003
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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
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 36
 Good girlfriend movie February 22, 2010
Stacey Laverne Sprowl (Oakwood, GA, US)
A great DVD to watch with your BFF. The highs and lows of Holly and Marina's life together growing up is so relate-able. First love and the broken heart that comes with it; rebelling; coming of age and finding yourself. the story focuses on the struggle for Holly to find her own identity seperate from her high maintenance, yet co-dependent friend.
Great 80's punk/alternative soundtrack.
I cannot watch this enough-- guilty pleasure July 5, 2009
Hooper (Charleston, WV)
This film is heartbreaking and believable. Marina is a force of nature-- and comandeers and uses her friendship with Holly from the very start. When the girls combine their names as children into "Harina," instead of "Hollina," it is obvious that the friendship is more about Marina than Holly-- for both of the girls. Marina needs Holly more than Holly needs Marina, although they love each other deeply. Marina sabotages Holly's hopes on more than one occasion, and attempts to be more and more like Holly as the two grow up together. Marina's most petulant and hurtful sabotage of Holly takes place in a fit of anger and jealousy after a night that was wonderful for Holly, but Marina's worst nightmares are realized. Although somewhat understandable, her action causes the audience to gasp, "Oh, no!" and resent what Marina has done to Holly in this moment. Marina holds onto this anger, and breaks Holly's heart many more times before Holly decides to break her ties to Marina. This is a perfect movie for rainy afternoons, and get-togethers with sisters.
 Nostalgia For Me July 28, 2007
Laura L. Laisure (Kingsley, MI United States)
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 Blindness as well!), but don't bring a guy.
BFF February 18, 2007
Miche H (Indy)
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.
It follows you home February 3, 2006
Avalanche Lily (Jacksonville, FL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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. If you don't fall in love with this movie, you'll fall in love with him. The music used fits perfectly into every mood and emotion that is explored in the lives of these two girls.
Anna Friel does a capital job as the loud-mouthed, self-obsessed friend. The contrasts between their personalities and the events that unfold are both heartbreaking and heartwarming.
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