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Title: Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| John Hawkes | ... | Richard Swersey | |
| Miranda July | ... | Christine Jesperson | |
| Miles Thompson | ... | Peter Swersey | |
| Brandon Ratcliff | ... | Robby Swersey | |
| Carlie Westerman | ... | Sylvie | |
| Hector Elias | ... | Michael | |
| Brad William Henke | ... | Andrew | |
| Natasha Slayton | ... | Heather | |
| Najarra Townsend | ... | Rebecca | |
| Tracy Wright | ... | Nancy Herrington | |
| JoNell Kennedy | ... | Pam | |
| Ellen Geer | ... | Ellen | |
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Colette Kilroy | ... | Sylvie's Mom |
| James Kayten | ... | Sylvie's Dad | |
| Amy French | ... | Museum Assistant | |
'Me and You and Everyone We Know' is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and "Eldercab" driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey, a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets the captivating Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard's six-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué Internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen-year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls -- practicing for their future of romance and marriage. Written by Sujit R. Varma
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
Yes, this feels low budget, but if ever a movie made the most of simple filming and direct acting, this is one. Oddly, this will not only make you smile, it'll touch you--I found myself crying at certain times, though I am a pushover. The lead actress happens to be the director, and she, Miranda July, is brilliant in both roles. You know throughout that the style is false, that the filming and pace and the events themselves are set-ups, something to work against, almost, to find sincerity. But boy do they find it, mainly July as a lonely and struggling artist and John Hawkes as a separated dad a little over his head in the parenting and romance departments.
To call this an Indie film is accurate, but don't have any stereotypes in mind on that score. This isn't edgy, or shocking, or raw on the edges, or simplistic, or all those things that sometimes define (and sometimes mar) lower budget non-studio films. This is comfortable in its shoes, and as a viewer you ease right into it. And ultimately you see a movie that talks about real people and real problems and real, 21st Century loneliness.