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Box Office: $55,337
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CONSENSUS
At times ponderous, Me Without You is engaging due to the fine work by Williams and Friel.
CAST & CREW
Michelle Williams, Anna Friel, Kyle MacLachlan
Directed by Sandra Goldbacher
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SYNOPSIS
ME WITHOUT YOU, directed by Sandra Goldbacher (THE GOVERNESS), follows two girls who promise to be best friends forever. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language, sexual content, and drug use
RUNTIME
1 hour, 41 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jul 5, 2002
Video: Jun 17, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
IDP Distribution
GENRE
Dramas, Drugs, Rock And Roll, London, England, Brothers, Sex, Women
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 "The rich performances by Friel -- and especially Williams, an American actress who becomes fully English -- round out the square edges."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"'If you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy, it can easily worm its way into your heart.'"
-- Paul Arendt, TELETEXT (UK)
"Nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite: friends will be friends through thick and thin."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
 "Ponderous, plodding soap opera disguised as a feature film."
-- Merle Bertrand, FILM THREAT
"Vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two English women."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"...the story, like Ravel’s Bolero, builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Me Without You is a moving take on the evolution of a friendship, and while it has its share of suds, it’s still good stuff."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"A journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history, in which we feel that we truly know what makes Holly and Marina tick, and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect, love-hate relationship."
-- KJ Doughton, FILM THREAT
"The movie, so briskly alert in details, is generic in its guiding ideas."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Engagingly captures the maddening and magnetic ebb and flow of friendship."
-- Pam Grady, REEL.COM
"Mostly, [Goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly, confusing and, through it all, human."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"A well-made and often lovely depiction of the mysteries of friendship."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"Taken seriously, it's not much to think about, but taken as a dirtier version of other girlie films ... it's at least entertaining and sexy fun."
-- Kim Morgan, OREGONIAN
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"The story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong friendships."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
"finely crafted, finely written, exquisitely performed"
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
""Me Without You" is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades."
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"It's too long, too repetitive, and takes way too many years to resolve to be a total winner."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"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
"Girls gone wild and gone civil again"
-- Thom Fowler, HOLLYWOOD BITCHSLAP
"This sensitive, smart, savvy, compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem."
-- Susan Granger, WWW.SUSANGRANGER.COM
"If much of Me Without You strikes a familiar chord, it also intelligently captures the difficulties that can disrupt even a close friendship."
-- Ed Kelleher, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Anchored by Friel and Williams's exceptional performances, the film's power lies in its complexity. Nothing is black and white."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"The characters, cast in impossibly contrived situations, are totally estranged from reality."
-- Nigam Nuggehalli, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
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"Offers much to enjoy ... and a lot to mull over in terms of love, loyalty and the nature of staying friends."
-- Mark Adams, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Flat, but with a revelatory performance by Michelle Williams."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a Hollywood film."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"You can't ignore the film's pungency as a cultural document and as a heartfelt testimony to the power struggles of best mates."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"There is no substitute for on-screen chemistry, and when Friel pulls the strings that make Williams sink into melancholia, the reaction in Williams is as visceral as a gut punch."
-- Lou Carlozo, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Me Without You has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Psychologically savvy."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Both illuminating and dispiriting."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
"It is to Goldbacher's credit that the film, while hardly short on confrontation, never resorts to one of those melodramatic laundry-airings in which all resentments and betrayals can be traced back to a singular incident and healed with a hug."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"It's hard to believe that a relationship like Holly and Marina's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom, and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive."
-- Dennis Lim, VILLAGE VOICE
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"It's a pleasure to actually watch a chick flick that appeals to all audiences because of its strict emphasis on human emotion, rather than fluffy pillows, pom-poms and makeovers."
-- John Oliver, KATRILLION.COM
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