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Drama

Me Without You

- ...best friends forever?

During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.

Release Date : 2001-11-01

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Momentum PicturesFireworks PicturesRoad MoviesWave PicturesBritish ScreenMEDIA Programme of the European UnionDakota FilmsSamuel Goldwyn FilmsIsle of Man Film CommissionBSBCapitol Films

Production Country : BelgiumDenmarkGermanyUnited KingdomUnited States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Anna Friel

Character Name : Marina

Original Name : Anna Friel

Gender : Female

Michelle Williams

Character Name : Holly

Original Name : Michelle Williams

Gender : Female

Oliver Milburn

Character Name : Nat

Original Name : Oliver Milburn

Gender : Male

Trudie Styler

Character Name : Linda

Original Name : Trudie Styler

Gender : Female

Marianne Denicourt

Character Name : Isabel

Original Name : Marianne Denicourt

Gender : Female

Steve John Shepherd

Character Name : Carl

Original Name : Steve John Shepherd

Gender : Male

Allan Corduner

Character Name : Max

Original Name : Allan Corduner

Gender : Male

Nicky Henson

Character Name : Ray

Original Name : Nicky Henson

Gender : Male

Kyle MacLachlan

Character Name : Daniel

Original Name : Kyle MacLachlan

Gender : Male

Deborah Findlay

Character Name : Judith

Original Name : Deborah Findlay

Gender : Female

Hannah Bourne

Character Name : Carolyn

Original Name : Hannah Bourne

Gender : Female

Russell Mabey

Character Name : Craig

Original Name : Russell Mabey

Gender : Male

Blake Ritson

Character Name : Tim

Original Name : Blake Ritson

Gender : Male

Francis Lee

Character Name : Paul

Original Name : Francis Lee

Gender : Male

Eve Cooper-Rose

Character Name : Sophie

Original Name : Eve Cooper-Rose

Gender : Male

Lee Williams

Character Name : Ben

Original Name : Lee Williams

Gender : Male

Annabel Mullion

Character Name : Meredith

Original Name : Annabel Mullion

Gender : Female

Andrew Beck

Character Name : Stuart

Original Name : Andrew Beck

Gender : Male

Adrian Lukis

Character Name : Leo

Original Name : Adrian Lukis

Gender : Male

Anna Popplewell

Character Name : Young Marina

Original Name : Anna Popplewell

Gender : Female

Eliot Sumner

Character Name : Holly and Marina's Child

Original Name : Eliot Sumner

Gender : Male

Natalie Moss

Character Name : Holly and Marina's Child

Original Name : Natalie Moss

Gender : Male

Ella Jones

Character Name : Young Holly

Original Name : Ella Jones

Gender : Female

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-06-04

This is one of those films that is so riddled with stupid personal choices from the characters that I lost interest fairly quickly. We start in the early 1970s as "Marina" (Anna's Poppelwell then Friel) and best friend "Holly" (Ella Jones then Michelle Williams) grow up together. The former girl has an absentee (pilot) father and a mother who is great fun - so long as she can pop a valium or two. The latter girl is a bit more stable, and it's that stability that provides "Marina" with a rudder through her increasingly Bohemian life. Each time she messes up, "Holly" is there to the rescue. Gradually, though, the penny drops for "Holly" as she realises that her own life is being subsumed into that of her friend. They even end up sharing blokes, wittingly and otherwise. The challenge for "Holly" now is how to assert herself and live her own life without her mate doing her own version of the Hindenburg. It's quite wittily poignant at times, but the inherently repetitive nature of the frying pan to fire scenarios and the unlikable nature of both of these women didn't really do it many favours as it trundles along. In principle, it addresses the complexities of addiction - not just booze and pills, but for an affection not just related to sex. In practice, though, it's a messy and incomplete analysis of two uninteresting people surrounded by men who all seemed to deserve each other. There's also far too much dialogue and after a while it just starts to fade into a background of mediocrity with the rest of this. Not for me, sorry.