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Me Without You

...best friends forever?

2001 · 1h 47m · R Drama
Directed by Sandra Goldbacher

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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.

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66%
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Rotten

Although the film deserves some points for trying to describe the intensity of best-friendship between girls, it fails to make them interesting people.

Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
Fresh

Feels like a late-baby-boomer family album.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh

Both illuminating and dispiriting.

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Fresh

A well-made and often lovely depiction of the mysteries of friendship.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten

Goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy, seductive pacing ... but she and writing partner Laurence Coriat don't manage an equally assured narrative coinage.

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly

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