Me Without You ( Meine beste Freundin )

Me Without You (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Meine beste Freundin
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Sandra Goldbacher

Written By:
Sandra Goldbacher
Laurence Coriat

Actors:
Ella Jones ..... Young Holly
Anna Popplewell ..... Young Marina
Cameron Powrie ..... Young Nat
Trudie Styler ..... Linda
Allan Corduner ..... Max
Deborah Findlay ..... Judith
Nicky Henson ..... Ray
Anna Friel ..... Marina
Michelle Williams ..... Holly
Oliver Milburn ..... Nat
Hannah Bourne ..... Carolyn
Russell Mabey ..... Craig (as Russell Maybey)
Blake Ritson ..... Tim
Francis Lee ..... Paul
Eve Cooper-Rose ..... Sophie

Synopsis:

Sandra Goldbacher's small, psychologically savvy film is the story of a toxic friendship, established in early childhood, whose poisons continue to circulate and infect both partners well into their adult lives. Every close friendship, of course, has its shadow side of lurking jealousy and competition, even if that shadow is just an occasional twinge of resentment. But from the time they are little girls, Marina (Anna Friel) and her best friend and next-door neighbor, Holly (Michelle Williams), find themselves locked in a power struggle that only Marina is fully aware of for much of that time. Under its drab contemporary trappings, the movie is really a Jane Austen-like moral parable in which goodness is rewarded and selfishness punished.

One long, hot summer in seventies London, Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For the troubled, unpredictable Marina, with her seemingly glamorous father and her Valium-addicted mother, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. Meanwhile, Holly buries herself in books out of feelings of frustration with her over-protective mother and a nagging insecurity around her beautiful and possessive best friend. She holds just one secret from Marina, her increasing passion for Marina's brother Nat. As the years roll by, the girls experience everything life has to offer, sex, love, loss and rock 'n roll. But eventually for Holly, a friendship which has never been equal gradually begins to feel like a trap.

In 1970s London, Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be best friends for ever. As the years go by, they share everything, but eventually, for the quieter Holly, a friendship which has never been equal gradually begins to feel like a trap.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 March, 2009.