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Imagine Me & You
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 Imagine Me & You Production NotesTagline: There goes the bride.
Heck (Matthew Goode) and Rachel (Piper Perabo) are a happy young couple about to embark on life together. But at the church, Rachel catches the eye of an unexpected guest. In that moment, she realizes that maybe Heck isn't the one for her. Of course, they will never know for sure unless they give it a shot.
"Imagine Me & You" is about a girl who falls in love on her wedding day...but not with the man of honor. Heck (Matthew Goode) and Rachel (Piper Perabo) are a happy young couple about to embark on life together. But at the church, Rachel catches the eye of an unexpected guest. In that moment, she realizes that maybe Heck isn't the one for her. Of course, they will never know for sure unless they give it a shot. What follows is the romantic, humorous and sometimes poignant journey familiar to anyone who's ever been lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love's spell.
In a singular moment of sudden awakening on the altar, everything changes for Rachel -- played by Piper Perabo in a lively departure as a quintessentially modern British woman – when she is suddenly forced to reconsider the meaning of happily ever after on entirely new terms moments before her honeymoon has even started.
When Rachel shows up at the church on what promises to be a fairy-tale wedding day, she is thrilled to be devoting herself for life to her long-time sweetheart and best friend, Heck (Matthew Goode). That’s when the unthinkable happens. In a moment that overturns everything in which she thought she believed, Rachel catches the eye of a complete stranger, the wedding’s florist (Lena Headey), and like a bolt from the blue, recognizes her soul mate.
Though she moves ahead with the marriage, something has profoundly changed. Everything about life is suddenly in question; and Rachel and her brand new husband are thrust into a journey that is at once disarmingly funny, decidedly bittersweet and definitely familiar to anyone who has ever fallen -- for better or for worse -- under love’s intoxicating spell.
The cast includes Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly, Cheaper by the Dozen), Matthew Goode (Match Point, He Knew He Was Right), Lena Headey (The Brothers Grimm, Ripley's Game), Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Little Britain), Celia Imrie (Wimbledon, Calendar Girls) and Sue Johnston (Brassed Off).
Love at first sight; love under duress; platonic love; mad love; unrequited love; love that defies the rules; love that hurts; love that saves you – these are just a few of the various iterations of love that cause chaos, confusion and ultimately transform the lives of the characters in the heartfelt, humor-filled British comedy, Imagine Me & You.
About the Production
A refreshingly unconventional and witty comedy about love’s myriad forms and constant surprises, IMAGINE ME & YOU begins as a young bride discovers love at first sight on the day of her wedding . . . unfortunately, not with the man of honor.
In a singular moment of sudden awakening on the altar, everything changes for Rachel -- played by Piper Perabo in a lively departure as a quintessentially modern British woman – when she is suddenly forced to reconsider the meaning of happily ever after on entirely new terms moments before her honeymoon has even started.
When Rachel shows up at the church on what promises to be a fairy-tale wedding day, she is thrilled to be devoting herself for life to her long-time sweetheart and best friend, Heck. That’s when the unthinkable happens. In a moment that overturns everything in which she thought she believed, Rachel catches the eye of a complete stranger, the wedding’s florist (Lena Headey), and like a bolt from the blue, recognizes her soul mate. Though she moves ahead with the marriage, something has profoundly changed. Everything about life is suddenly in question; and Rachel and her brand new husband are thrust into a journey that is at once disarmingly funny, decidedly bittersweet and definitely familiar to anyone who has ever fallen -- for better or for worse -- under love’s intoxicating spell.
The Engagement: Story
Love at first sight; love under duress; platonic love; mad love; unrequited love; love that defies the rules; love that hurts; love that saves you – these are just a few of the various iterations of love that cause chaos, confusion and ultimately transform the lives of the characters in the heartfelt, humor-filled British comedy, IMAGINE ME & YOU.
The film is written by, and marks the directorial debut of, Ol Parker, already considered part of a promising new generation of British filmmakers, who previously wrote the hip nightclub drama LOVED UP, the date-rape drama IN YOUR DREAMS and the crime caper IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. Having just been married himself (to actress Thandie Newton), Parker sat down to write about a subject close to his heart: how people fall in love and how love, in one way or another, comically and profoundly complicates life.
“I always start writing thinking about themes rather than plots,” Parker explains. “This time I knew I wanted to write about love as a force of nature, and specifically about the phenomenon of love at first sight, which is what happened with my wife and me. I started wondering: what would be the worst possible time and place to suddenly fall crazy in love? Clearly the answer was your wedding day, so that became the initial inspiration for the story.”
As Parker was writing the opening scenes – focusing on the impending marriage between vivacious Rachel and her mild-mannered husband-to-be, Heck – he suddenly realized that the person who was about to make Rachel mad with bewildering feelings of connection was the wedding’s florist . . . who also happened to be a woman. Like Rachel, Parker decided to go with his gut instincts. In a very real sense, he decided that the gender of Rachel’s new love was, aside from being an unconventional twist for a romantic comedy, beside the point. It was the strength and conviction of Rachel’s feelings – even in the face of a myriad of questions raised in regards to what she should do about them – that made the story so interesting to him.
“I really wanted to write the script in such a way that, although there’s a same-sex love story involved, an audience of my parents and their friends would enjoy it,” notes Parker.
Spiced with Parker’s trademark style of verbal wit and droll observations of modern behavior, the script for IMAGINE ME & YOU quickly won over British producer Sophie Balhetchet. She recalls that she simply couldn’t put the screenplay down. “It was funny and touching and the premise was so intriguing: if you experience love at first sight and you are in another relationship what do you do? Do you act upon it or turn your back on it? It’s such an enormous force,” says Balhetchet, “so do you dare to let it pass? And, if not, can you bear to hurt someone you also love?”
Balhetchet continues: “The script looked at these timeless questions with a new twist that gave the story a complexity within the romantic comedy genre that I thought was particularly original. The character of Rachel has come to one of those junctures in life where you know you can no longer go back to the way you were before, however much you might want to; and, in a very real sense, it is suddenly upon you to decide if you are going to live your life truthfully.” As for the relationship between Rachel and Luce, Balhetchet found it more moving and charming than controversial. “It’s really to do with the quality of the connection between them and not their genders,” she observes. “In that way, the fact that they are two women really seemed by the by.”
Producer Andro Steinborn vividly recalls his first encounter with the screenplay. “I remember reading the script sitting in a busy café in the center of Berlin, frequently laughing out loud and also hiding a tear here and there,” he says. “I was taken by the tone, by the love story between the two women, by the brilliant, funny dialogue and most of all by the structure which never wasted a thought. The twist of the same-sex love story was almost incidental but it gave the story spice and made it different from other romantic comedies.”
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Piper Perabo and Lena Headey in Imagine Me & You.
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