Me and You and Everyone We Know

United Kingdom, United States

2005

91 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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EXEC Holly Becker, Peter Carlton, Jonathan Sehring

CAST John Hawkes, Miranda July, Ellen Geer, Najarra Townsend, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Carlie Westerman, Hector Elias, Brad William Henke

ED Andrew Dickler, Charles Ireland

MUSIC Michael Andrews

Cannes (Semaine de la Critique): Critics Week Grand Prize, Caméra d'Or, Sundance (Dramatic Competition): Special Jury Prize, São Paulo (International Perspective)

Synopsis

Richard Swersey (John Hawkes) is a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys who is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when the captivating and spontaneous Christine Jesperson (Miranda July) enters his life, he panics. Christine is an artist and ""Eldercab"" driver who vacillates between heartbreak and faith as she weaves together reality and the fantastical in her art and life. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons have no such hesitation. Life is not so oblique for Richard’s seven-year-old Robby, who is having an internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen year-old brother Peter, who is forced to be the ""impartial authority"" in a test of skill inflicted by classmates Heather and Rebecca…

Director

Miranda July

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials. July wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know(2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker, and her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, (Scribner, 2007) won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. In 2002 July created the participatory website, learningtoloveyoumore, with artist Harrell Fletcher, and a companion book was published in 2007 (Prestel). Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden she designed for the 2009 Venice Biennale, is on view in Union Square in New York for the summer of 2010. Raised in Berkeley, California, she currently… read more

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Wa Leerasanthanah

23May12

The peculiar dialogue make this movie. Many memorable and impressive bits that make you wonder.

Vanessa Li

14Apr12

Everyone wants a little bit of magic in their lives.

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Harry Rossi

27Mar12

Very sweet and entertaining. All the performances were fantastic especially John Hawkes. Overall I'd definitely suggest it. Very good.

sergey babkin

17Mar12

After watching this film I felt such a surge of solitude I didn't want to live. I felt as if the loneliness of all people in the world took a form of a giant drill and started to twist in my mind. It was unbearable but also surprisingly inspiring.