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Piper Perabo and Lena Headey have the lead roles in this typically quirky 2005 Brit indie movie, a lesbian take on the discovering one’s true self just a smidge late plot. Writer/director Ol Parker doesn’t go for the exploitation possibilities, even if Ol is short for Oliver and therefore male, with no topless sex scenes and barely any passionate kissing.
Instead Imagine Me and You focuses on the emotional battle Perabo’s Rachel fights inside herself and the question over people fall in love at the first glance with everything else just rationalizing the decision. The movie opens with Rachel’s wedding to Heck (Matthew Goode) and, as she’s walking down the aisle just a tad late, spots Luce (Headey, the celebration’s florist) off to the side. Rachel, of course, is not, or at least has never considered the possibility she might be, gay but as their friendship blooms begins to feel an attraction to powerful to ignore.
Darren Boyd does a good job of playing heck’s best friend, a womanizer who is perhaps a bit too obviously intended to be the exact opposite of his settled, happy at home mate, with decent support from Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Celia Imrie as Rachel’s parents, Boo Jackson as her very sweet, much younger sister and Wire in the Blood‘s Sue Johnston as Luce’s straight, supportive, very single and in the market mother.
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