Let's be realistic.

Instant Favorite.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Me and You and Everyone Else We Know (2005): Dir: Miranda July / Cast: Miranda July, John Hawkes, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Natasha Slayton: Impressive debut for director Miranda July about connecting to others. She casts herself as a lonely artist whose mother is ill and her father accompanies her to a shoe store where she meets a salesman played by John Hawkes. He is separated with two children but he cannot function when July shows interest in him. His oldest son is targeted by two teenage girls who use him for sexual experimentation. His seven year-old discovers Internet chat sites, which leads to a few chuckles. When Internet chats become sexually suggested by an adult to two teenage girls then things can be divert but July handles the material like a pro and delivers a film of intelligent nature . July also goes further and acts in the film playing off Hawkes's romantic interest. July and Hawkes succeed because they are established with decent backgrounds thus presenting a starting ground to their meet cue. Supporting roles are also well written and provide perfect backup to July and Hawkes. Well crafted comedy that is much more honest than most mainstream films. This film addresses connection and relating to those around you or just casually within everyday routine. It is an excellent film and should be be recommend to me and you and everyone else we know. Score: 10 / 10

I like well made films and the introduction to this one, although slight dull seemed intriguing. However, it failed to ignite and like a car with a broken engine it needed a strong push, which it failed to receive. The scenarios throughout, touching on the subject of Pedophilia and the dangerous curious minds of lonely children were weak, this movie failed to make a proper statement in every area, it's like the writer had intention to create a meaningful scenario and then got way too stoned that they couldn't be bothered to follow through. This film was way too long and too much time was spent on the troubled female character who was recording and sent her work to an artist.I don't think this film was a realistic portrayal or an artistic one of any community, it truly was the same all the way through, with nothing groundbreaking taking place, it was all just ideas bundled together that never went anywhere, somewhere someone had intention but the paper plane just kept flying in circles.--------Not worth viewing if you actually care to watch thought- provoking artistic films ----- this film is the most pretentious i've seen recently

Miranda July wrote, directed, and acted in this film as Christine Jesperson, an elderly taxi cab driver and aspiring artist, in Los Angeles, California. John Hawkes played Richard Swerskey, a newly separated father of two young sons, who works a dead end job in shoe sales at a department store. John Hawkes does a fabulous job in playing a sympathetic role in this film. There are plenty of awkward times in the film. There is plenty of realism in watching everyday ordinary people living their lives. The pedophile character is perhaps the most troublesome. He leaves disturbing notes on his window but nobody seems to read them except the two teenage girls who walk by everyday. There is a lot of relevant topics that the film deals with on an everyday level about online pornography, divorce, coming of age. The film is very relevant years later in today's world. There are no major stars but the story itself. Viewers will appreciate and relate to the characters in this film. They're just struggling to get by in life and trying to find happiness an fulfillment.

A thin film bulked out with portentous, indie-sensibility design, music and open acting... I don't know the term I'm after, but it's that manner of acting which allows the audience to simply insert whatever they want to make of it. There's a fair bit of dead-pan staring, put it that way.It helps to pass the time of this otherwise pretty trying film that director Miranda July has hired John Hawkes as her leading man and that she herself is an attractive, sympathetic figure. The rest of the cast have their idiosyncrasies. But these are all amplified in substitution for character, relationships and narrative, just as the small episodes which make up the film are concentrated on in isolation to the detraction of the whole.I saw the film with a short introduction narrated by July herself. Her suggestion that a feature could be three of her half-hour shorts stuck together tells you much of what you need to know about this film before watching it. 3/10