Imagine Me & You (2006)
Directed by Ol Parker
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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Imagine Me & You is a little like watching Four Weddings and a Funeral on a magic TV that has been slightly more esoterically calibrated.
In other words, what we have here is sort of a lesbian version of "Four Weddings and a Funeral," and in spots Parker's movie finds some of that film's charm.
Producers angling for the next Four Weddings And A Funeral would be wise to scoop up Goode for any role Hugh Grant turns down.
Written and directed by Ol Parker, "Imagine Me & You" is reminiscent of the works of Richard Curtis, the screenwriter of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and the writer-director of "Love Actually."
In the earliest days of romantic comedy, filmmakers Frank Capra (Platinum Blonde) and Ernst Lubitsch (The Smiling Lieutenant) told stories of married people falling in love with outside parties.
In the earliest days of romantic comedy, filmmakers Frank Capra (Platinum Blonde) and Ernst Lubitsch (The Smiling Lieutenant) told stories of married people falling in love with outside parties.
A few years later, with It Happened One Night, Capra decided that it was easier to tell stories about single people and simply conjure up some outside force to keep them apart until the third act.
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Actually, Love Actually's style DNA exerts far more influence on the chemistry of this blithely synthetic romantic comedy than meaningful sexual identity.
Written and directed by Ol Parker, "Imagine Me & You" is reminiscent of the works of Richard Curtis, the screenwriter of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and the writer-director of "Love Actually."
Sue Johnston ("Brassed Off") is Luce's lonely hearts mother who is nudged back to life by her daughter.
It almost comes as a shock to discover that Richard Curtis has absolutely nothing to do with Imagine Me & You, as the film plays out like just the sort of British romantic comedy that Curtis has cornered the market on (ie Love, Actually, Notting Hill, etc).