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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404995048
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404995048
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 6972
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Description:
Award-winning and critically acclaimed, Me You and Everyone We Know, is a poetic and penetrating look at how everyday people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating modern world. Christine Jesperson (writer/director Miranda July) is a struggling artist and cab driver who uses her talents and imagination to draw her dreams and objects of desire. One such object is Richard Swersey (John Hawkes, TV's 'Deadwood'), a newly-single father of two boys who is hoping for amazing things, yet panics upon meeting the captivating Christine. But in a world where the mundane is transcendent and people seek meaningful connections despite the risk, anything magical can happen - and well - happen.
Amazon.com:
One of the most critically acclaimed films of 2005, Me and You and Everyone We Know is also one of the most original feature debuts you're ever likely to see. Winner of the Camera d'or Award for best first film at the Cannes Film Festival, it's an altogether charming display of talent for writer, director, and costar Miranda July, a performance artist making a promising transition to film. Her loose-knit tale of love and longing encompasses a large cast of quirky and memorable characters, foremost among them being Christine (July), a forlorn dreamer who falls in love with Richard (John Hawkes, from HBO's Deadwood), who's going through a traumatic divorce. Richard is desperate to be a good father to his seven- and 14-year-old sons, both of whom have experiences that push Me and You to an almost perverse level of audacity, but July handles their potentially troubling scenes with such delicacy and tact that they seem almost miraculously innocent. The whole film is like that: It never, ever goes where you think it's going to go, and every scene tingles with humor, affection and curiosity for its characters. As it turns routine days into joyous opportunities for discovery, July's remarkable film is not for all tastes, but if you're looking for something new, different, and defiantly out of the mainstream, this gentle comedy's for you. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Quirky means... yicky, yucky, quacky
It's time to get quirky-- that means getting sentimental; that means getting melodramatic; that means being frustrating, and self-absorbed, and self-important. That means being quacky, and yicky and yucky. Watching these characters make them endearing, but if you actually knew them they would make you nauseous. This, my friends, is the face of independent cinema. Too afraid to make a real point, dancing around, and masking themselves in a stylized form of b.s. We've seen it with Juno, and Thumbsucker, ... Read More
Rating:  - miserable people with miserable lives
Others have found this movie intriguing if melancholy. I found it totally miserable as well as exploitative. It has that "indie" feel about it with characters that are supposed to be "quirky" and a little off-center. In this case, they are so far off center as to be dangerously deranged. The "hero" celebrates his divorce by setting his own hand on fire. Nice! His neglected kids, one a young teen and the other barely out of kindergarten, get involved in sex chat rooms with deviant adults. The "heroine" ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't watch with your family
A great and extremely quirky movie, but makes for awkward times with a family. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Rating:  - ;;;;....;;;;,,,,
This film reminded me quite a bit of "Little Miss Sunshine" without the spunk. Instead of relentless positivism, the characters in M&Y&EWK all display a hunger, a yearning for love and a paralyzing uncertainty born of repeated disappointment. The people are the same unpredictable and mildly-agreeable misfits as "Sunshine" but the film itself is considerably more somber.
There are moments of unanticipated wonder in the film, and although somber the pace never drags so I found it quite easy ... Read More
Rating: - Not an instant classic, but a great effort and worth a look
I had mixed feelings about this one. Maybe a second screening is in order.
I can say this much: it's different. The problem is, any many points, it seemed like it was trying to be. It comes off as contrived at times. I would even go as far as saying it had forced "American Beauty" qualities, from the standpoint of trying to capture the essence of life, especially in the forms of human relationships.
The biggest problem for me is that I really didn't feel like I went anywhere with these ... Read More
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