{"id":13991,"date":"2012-02-20T23:42:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/02\/20\/13991.html"},"modified":"2012-02-20T23:42:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T07:42:10","slug":"imagine-me-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/02\/20\/imagine-me-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine Me &#038; You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple weeks ago, I somehow happened across a mention of a 2005 movie I had never heard of: <cite>Imagine Me &amp; You<\/cite>. Maybe I had ordered some sort of queer movie from Amazon, and it was one of the &ldquo;if you liked x, you might like y&rdquo; recommendations? I'm not sure.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the description and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/media\/rm2482737664\/tt0421994\">cover image\/poster<\/a> looked intriguing&mdash;it was clearly a romantic comedy, and the romantic leads were women, and the trailer was kind of funny (I think I only watched the first half of the trailer, 'cause it looked like it was going to contain major spoilers), so I got the movie from Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Watched it today during a break from magazine stuff, and enjoyed the heck out of it. Fun, funny, and totally charming.<\/p>\n<p>I should start with a couple of disclaimers: first, it's solidly in the romantic comedy genre (with concomitant genre conventions) in every way except for the leads being both women; second, if you can't suspend disbelief enough to believe in love at first sight, you will probably find this movie annoying rather than delightful; third, it is the kind of movie in which someone who's in a monogamous relationship falls for someone else, so if that pushes your buttons, don't watch this.<\/p>\n<p>And fourth, I just read a review (written by a man who didn't like the movie) that suggested that actual lesbians would either not find the movie believable or be offended by it. I suspect that at least some of y'all actual lesbians might like it a lot, but I could well be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you're up for a love-at-first-sight romantic comedy in which one of the romantic leads is married to someone else, then here are some possible reasons to watch this one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Lena Headey as Luce, one of the romantic leads. I had previously known her only in the title role in <cite>Sarah Connor Chronicles<\/cite>; she's just as good in this very different role. Also, I had no idea she's British.<\/li>\n  <li>Piper Perabo as Rachel, the other romantic lead. In case you don't recognize the name, she's the lead in <cite>Covert Affairs<\/cite>, but I like her way better in this. (She was also in <cite>The Prestige<\/cite>.) And I'm no expert, but I thought her British accent was quite good.<\/li>\n  <li>Anthony Head, the guy who played Giles on <cite>Buffy<\/cite>, as Rachel's father.<\/li>\n  <li>Rachel's young sister H, who is totally charming and asks great questions, like &ldquo;Do penguins have knees?&rdquo; (Played by a girl named Boo Jackson, who's apparently not been in anything else, which is too bad.)<\/li>\n  <li>Rachel's husband Heck, played by Matthew Goode (who was Ozymandias in <cite>Watchmen<\/cite>, though I wouldn't have recognized him); it's basically a Young Hugh Grant role, but Goode is just as charming as Grant would have been.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, this is certainly my favorite lesbian romantic comedy since <cite>Better than Chocolate<\/cite>, and one of my favorite romantic comedies of any kind in the past year or so. (I would normally make a stronger statement than that, but I've seen one or two other particularly good ones lately.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, I somehow happened across a mention of a 2005 movie I had never heard of: Imagine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}