
Growing up in the 1970s on the Isle of Wight, 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... (Full plot summary below)
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Growing up in the 1970s on the Isle of Wight, 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.
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| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Anita Schmaltz'Me Without You is one-sided...[but] the film has a wonderful knack for capturing each decade's zeitgeist...' |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittMostly, [Goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly, confusing and, through it all, human. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe rich performances by Friel -- and especially Williams, an American actress who becomes fully English -- round out the square edges. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford"Me Without You" is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades. |
| Arizona RepublicRichard NilsenAlthough the film deserves some points for trying to describe the intensity of best-friendship between girls, it fails to make them interesting people. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter Chawfinely crafted, finely written, exquisitely performed |
| San Diego Union-TribuneDavid ElliottThe movie, so briskly alert in details, is generic in its guiding ideas. |
| Contra Costa TimesMary F. PolsGoldbacher is right on in the way she captures the fear and need involved in such a relationship. |
| culturevulture.netNigam NuggehalliThe characters, cast in impossibly contrived situations, are totally estranged from reality. |
| Film Journal InternationalEd KelleherIf much of Me Without You strikes a familiar chord, it also intelligently captures the difficulties that can disrupt even a close friendship. |