Me Myself I

1999, vhs

Johnny's comments:

Me Myself I is a 1999 'Sliding Doors' drama where successful writer Pamela (Rachel Griffiths) who is in her 30s but has has no success with finding a man to love. The one man she did like Robert (David Roberts) has moved on and has a family of his own which she seems envious of. She meets P.E. teacher Ben (Sandy Winton) and seems to have a spark with him. But before she can go on a date with him, Pamela has an accident and meets her doppelgänger who married Robert and when she wakes, she is now married to Robert with three kids (oldest daughter played by Yael Stone). At first, Pamela is lost as to how to be a mother but when Robert arrives back from his trip, she tries to revive their sexual relationship which seems to be waning but comes back to life. Then Pamela meets Ben in this world, now a sports writer and she begins an affair with him and starts to wain on Robert. Robert attempts to reaffirm his love for her, Pamela has a choice to make: stay with Robert or go back to her old life and improve herself.

'Sliding Doors' plots were all the rage in the late 90s/early 2000s and Australia wasn't going to be left out. A fairly saucy drama where Pamela brings some of her bad habits from her life and brings them to her alternate life while learning a few things about herself. Otherwise the plot is fairly standard and is very similar to The Family Man (which actually came out a year later), family life is better than the single life and must be obtained no matter what.

Strangely, the imagined Pamela is sleeping around on Robert, a plot development that goes nowhere and Robert never finds out about.

The movie doesn't even try with the changeover, just some tossed off scene where both Pamela's meet one another, no reason given as to why or how they meet or even change back.

A pretty modest effort.

Rachel Griffiths film clip (collage below)