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Me and you and everyone we know - Miranda July, John Hawkes, Brad Henke

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Acclaimed multimedia performance artist Miranda July makes a leap into feature filmmaking.

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 (Miranda July) 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 (John Hawkes), 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 7-year-old Robby (Brandon Ratcliff), who is having a risqué internet romance with a stranger, and his 14-year-old brother Peter (Miles Thompson), who becomes the guinea pig for neighbourhood girls practising for their future of romance and marriage.

In July's modern world, the mundane is transcendent and everyday people become radiant characters who speak their innermost thoughts, act on secret impulses, and experience truthful human moments that at times approach the surreal. They seek togetherness through tortured routes and find redemption in small moments that connect them to someone else on earth.

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Persons of interest

Miranda July .... Christine Jesperson
Ellen Geer .... Ellen
John Hawkes .... Richard Swersey
Brad Henke .... Andrew
Jordan Potter .... Shamus
Brandon Ratcliff .... Robby Swersey
Natasha Slayton .... Heather
Miles Thompson .... Peter Swersey
Najarra Townsend .... Rebecca
Carlie Westerman .... Sylvie
Miranda July .... Screenwriter
Miranda July .... Director

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Awards and film festivals:

Cannes Film Festival 2005: Won: Critics Week Grand Prize (Miranda July), Golden Camera (Miranda July), Prix Regards Jeune: Best Feature Film (Miranda July), Young Critics Award: Best Feature (Miranda July)
Independent Spirit Awards 2005: Won: Producers Award (Gina Kwon)
Independent Spirit Awards 2006: Nominated: Best first feature, Best first screenplay (Miranda July)
Melbourne International Film Festival 2005: International Panorama
San Francisco International Film Festival 2005: Won: Audience Award: Best Narrative Feature (Miranda July), SKYY Prize (Miranda July)
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2005: Zabaltegi: Festivals' Top
Sundance Film Festival 2005: Won: Grand Jury Prize Dramatic: Originality of Vision (Miranda July); Nominated: Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (Miranda July)

Studios and distributors:

Icon Entertainment

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Theatrical report

If you can ignore the acclaimed multimedia performance art, Me and you and everyone we know is a wryly and delightfully observed drama about low-level people living low-level lives. There is a feeling of "this is as good as it gets" that resonates with other recent films like Garden State and Sideways. It's as if American filmmakers are discovering that independent film need not be merely lower-budget Hollywood fare. There is a grinding depression that always lurks just off-screen, always ready and waiting to trap the unwary. True love doesn't strike like a bolt of lightning. Sex is not meaningful. No-one leaves food on the table. Me and you and everyone we know is good, just not as good as it thinks.