Metacritic Film

Me Myself I

Starring Rachel Griffiths, David Roberts, and Sandy Winton

MPAA RATING: R for sexuality and some language

Sony Pictures Classics
Comedy
104 minutes | Color
Australia / France
Released In Theaters April 7, 2000

The story of a single career woman in her 30's (Griffiths), wondering if she's made all the wrong decisions in life. (Sony Pictures Classics)

WRITTEN BY
Philippa Karmel

DIRECTED BY
Philippa Karmel

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

46 / 100

Critic Reviews

75 Chicago Sun-Times
Griffiths is one of the most intensely interesting actresses at work today.
75 San Francisco Chronicle
At heart this is a thoughtful, well-made movie about something serious.
70 Rolling Stone
Karmel delivers feminist fun even a guy can get.
67 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Likely to provide many points of identification for many women.
63 Chicago Tribune
Far too self-absorbed a picture.
58 Portland Oregonian
Takes a look at the bumpy path to self-discovery.
50 Chicago Reader
Easy to take but ultimately rather aimless.
50 Film.com
Though the film is generally weak, treading very familiar ground, those dashes of insight and humor - along with Griffiths' performance - pull you into the film.
50 Entertainment Weekly
Rachel Griffiths...is the best reason, nay, the only reason to pay attention to Me Myself I.
50 The New York Times
A sugarcoated romantic comedy that is just clever enough to make you wish it were three times as smart and only a third as sweet.
50 Los Angeles Times
Griffiths' Pam holds your attention without any gratuitous mannerisms or broad asides. It's a sleek, rangy performance that all but redeems the hackneyed familiarity of the premise.
50 TV Guide
If you were watching it at home you wouldn't feel compelled to pause the film before going into the kitchen to fix a snack.
50 Dallas Observer
Ambitious in scope and humble in execution.
50 Boston Globe
A comic vehicle for that valuable Australian export, Rachel Griffiths.
40 Village Voice
A feel-good, fatalist placebo.
40 Film.com
The script is a minefield of ideas that need more work.
38 New York Daily News
A fascinating contrast in lifestyles.
20 LA Weekly
It's bad enough that Australian writer-director Pip Karmel feels she must attempt the alternate-reality gimmick.
20 Film.com
Despite this chance to experience something thrilling and new, her life is just as dull the second time around.

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