Imagine Me & You (2006)

Starring: Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode, Celia Imrie, Anthony Head.Synopsis: A young woman who is finally marrying her long time boyfriend sees someone else for the first time and falls in love at first. The person she sees is another woman, which makes her feelings even more complicated in dealing with her new husband. Romance. Directed by Ol Parker.

Imagine Me & You a flick that deals with the legend of "love at first sight". The fly in the ointment here is that Rachel (Piper Perabo Edison Force ) is finally marrying her long time boyfriend, Heck (Matthew Goode Match Point). Rachel and Heck are happy together, and finally getting married will be the high point of their relationship.

As Rachel is walking down the isle, she sees Luce (Lena Headey 300) for the first time and the spark is there for both of them. Luce runs a flower shop in town and knows Heck, which is how she got the gig of setting up the flowers for the wedding. Luce is in between girlfriends and Rachel is, of course, married, so things build slowly, with Heck at first wanting Rachel to hang out with Luce when he's tied up with work.

There is a great scene where the two of them attend a football (soccer) game and Luce teaches Rachel how to really yell which is also the first close physical contact that they have. Of course, if you have seen any romantic comedy before, you know that after the realization of the initial attraction, there is the road to finding out if it is mutual, then the roadblocks/denial, they the finale where we find out if the two will get and stay together.

Well, you know me well enough to know that I am not going to give that away, here, but I will say that the fact that the two lovebirds are of the same sex and that one is newly married does throw a wrench into the typical story line. Having said that, I really want to emphasize that, for me, this is really not a "gay" movie, something that the director said as well in his commentary. By that, I mean that the same sex angle is not the only, or even the main focus of the story, its Rachel's struggle with her feelings for Luce in the context of her love and long relationship with Heck.

The story is set completely in London, and all the actors except Perabo are British. But, Perabo deserves a big shout out for her performance, her accent is wonderful and if you don't know that she is a Jersey girl, you would probably think she is British. Goode is, well, good in his role as Heck, which might remind you a little of his role in Match Point.   Headley does well to play Luce in a likable way, unabashed about her preference for women but not a home wrecker and we can certainly empathize with her character.