Me and You and Everyone We Know
Overview
Performance artist Miranda July's debut feature film, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW, is a charming, quirky romantic comedy that is entertaining from start to finish. Writer-director July stars as Christine, an offbeat performance artist who becomes instantly smitten with Richard (John Hawkes), a brooding department-store shoe salesman who is having trouble dealing with his divorce and his separation from his two kids--the shy, private Peter (Miles Thompson) and the very funny Robby (Brandon Ratcliff). Christine is trying to get her latest work accepted at a major museum, but first she has to get through mean-spirited Nancy (Tracy Wright), who is not necessarily very interested in her submission. Meanwhile, Natasha Slayton and Najarra Townsend are a riot as a pair of teenagers who think they're ready for sex as they tease neighborhood pervert Andrew (Brad Henke) and consider experimenting with Peter. Amid all the tender, comedic, well-acted, and well-written scenes, Ratcliff nearly steals the film as Robby gets involved in a dirty, hysterical online chat with a mystery person. July's marvelous, surprising movie won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in addition to well-deserved prizes at the Philadelphia and San Francisco International Film Festivals.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Miranda July - Director
John Hawkes
Miranda July
Miles Thompson
Brandon Ratcliff
Carlie Westerman
Hector Elias
Brad William Henke
Natasha Slayton
Details
- Format: DVD
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 715515245111
- Genre: COMEDIES
- Rating: R (MPAA)
- Release Date: April 2020
Movie Reviews
Notes:
Theatrical Release: June 17, 2005 (Limited)
Reviews:
"July's handmade movie is so unique and so true to the artist's elementally feminine self, both in form an in content, that it's impossible not to respond strongly to it." - 06/24/2005 Entertainment Weekly, p.142-143
"Ms. July observes the odd behavior of all these people, and records her own, with a warm collector's eye." - 06/17/2005 New York Times, p.E13
"Optimistic and humanistic to the core, [The film] is a paean to perseverance and finding ways to cope." - 06/24/2005 Los Angeles Times, p.E8
"July has a refreshingly curious way of looking at the world....Generous and original." - 09/01/2005 Uncut, p.138
"Miranda July's witty ode to only-connecting sustains a tone of pensive whimsy." - 09/01/2005 Sight and Sound, p.68-69
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "July affords her characters a rare degree of grace....A superb, subtly wrought debut." - 10/20/2005 Rolling Stone, p.92
4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] quietly funny and tender love story entirely unlike any we've seen before, which nevertheless deftly sidesteps the potential pitfalls of its edgy originality to remain trim, straightforward and accessible." - 12/01/2005 Premiere, p.186
Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "[A] lovely, utterly original, elementally feminine video creation..." - 12/30/2005 Entertainment Weekly, p.120
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