Imagine Me & You

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Imagine Me & You
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ol Parker
Produced by	Barnaby Thompson
Written by	Ol Parker
Starring	Piper Perabo Lena Headey Matthew Goode Celia Imrie Anthony Head
Music by	Alex Heffes
Cinematography	Ben Davis
Editing by	Alex Mackie
Distributed by	Fox Searchlight Pictures Focus Features BBC Films
Release date(s)	September 9, 2005 (Toronto) January 27, 2006 (US)
Running time	94 min.
Country
Language	English
Gross revenue	$671,240 (US) €86,082
Official website
IMDb profile

Imagine Me & You is a 2005 British comedy-romance film written and directed by Ol Parker. It centers on the relationship between Rachel and Lucy (Piper Perabo and Lena Headey), who meet on Rachel's wedding day. The movie takes its title from a line in the song "Happy Together". Writer/director Ol Parker reveals on the DVD audio commentary that the movie was originally titled Click, after the French term for love at first sight, but conflicts with the Adam Sandler film of the same name necessitated the name change.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Box office
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Rachel (Piper Perabo) is a young English woman marrying Hector (nicknamed Heck) (Matthew Goode), her boyfriend of many years. Lucy (nicknamed Luce) (Lena Headey) manages a flower shop in a North London suburb (which is filmed in both Hampstead). She also makes fast friends with Rachel's younger sister, Henrietta (nicknamed "H" because, according to Henrietta, her mother exclaimed "Jesus H. Christ!" upon discovering she was pregnant).

Some time later, Luce is invited to dinner with Rachel, Heck, and Coop (Darren Boyd), Heck's best friend and a perennial bachelor. Rachel suggests they fix up Luce with Coop, until Luce mentions that she's a lesbian. Heck takes this news in stride, and Coop is undeterred in his good-natured attempts to sleep with her.

While Heck works long hours at his increasingly unsatisfying office job, he encourages Rachel to be friends with Luce. The two spend an evening together, visiting a football match and an arcade (which becomes the setting for a Dance Dance Revolution sequence). At the end of the night, Luce walks Rachel back to her flat. Their goodbye grows awkward from tension, and Rachel tries to kiss Luce. But Rachel withdraws at the last moment and leaves.

Over the next few days, Rachel continues to deny her growing attraction to Luce in an effort to remain loyal to Heck. For her part, Luce has no wish to break up a committed couple. Rachel even confronts Luce directly about their feelings at the flower shop. She tells Luce that a romance between them cannot happen, leaves, and abruptly returns seconds later to kiss Luce in the back of the shop. Their foreplay gets interrupted by Heck, who has stopped by to pick up flowers for Rachel. He tells Luce that he has sensed the distance growing between him and Rachel and partially blames himself for not being there for her. Hearing this, Rachel sorrowfully informs Luce that she can't betray Heck again. She goes so far as to rashly confess all to Heck, who feigns sleeping, without saying who. Heck later turns to Coop for support and tells him what Rachel inadvertently told him. Coop angrily confronts Luce after figuring out it was her Rachel fell in love with and she decides that being near Rachel without being with her is too hard. Luce makes plans to go on an extended vacation out of the country, leaving care of her shop to her mother.

When Rachel and Heck are celebrating her birthday at her parents', H tells them about Luce's vacation. Heck then figures out that it was Luce who Rachel fell in love with after noticing her reaction to the news. Heck loves Rachel too much to abide her deep unhappiness, and eventually lets her go so that she can be with Luce. She then confesses to her parents that she is “in love with a woman” and with their help, Rachel tracks down Luce as she takes a taxi to the airport. The two women reunite and kiss each other in the middle of a crowded London street.

[edit] Cast

Piper Perabo as Rachel
Lena Headey as Luce
Matthew Goode as Heck
Celia Imrie as Tessa
Anthony Head as Ned
Darren Boyd as Cooper
Sue Johnston as Ella
Boo Jackson as H (Henrietta)
Sharon Horgan as Beth
Eva Birthistle as Edie
Vinette Robinson as Zina
Ben Miles as Rob
John Thompson as Priest
Mona Hammond as Mrs. Edwards
Rick Warden as Gordon

[edit] Box office

On January 27, 2006 the film opened in 106 theaters in the USA. In its opening weekend, the film made 51,907 USD. It stayed eight weeks on theaters in the USA and made 672,243 USD in total.^[1]
In the Netherlands, the film grossed over €97.470, debuting at #10 in its second week.
Worldwide the film grossed over 991,817 USD.^[1]