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High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.
Director:
Alfonso Gomez-RejonWriters:
Jesse Andrews (novel), Jesse Andrews(screenplay)Stars:
Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia CookeStory line
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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This movie cares very little about the titular character, Earl and has even less to do to with the dying girl. It is instead fully consumed by the filmmakers' needs to tell the world how witty and precious THEY are. They have 2 hours worth of movie name drops and soundtrack quotes and their own classic remakes to back it up. It is as if they are declaring, 'I 'know the conversation so well that I can quote it but I m too cool and clever to do something this straight forward. So I m doing this instead.' None of the characters and their emotions here ring true as they are too busy to out-quirky each other in their outfits, out of left field dialogues and odd balled behaviour. Why? Because the filmmakers are cool. That's why. Just shut up and admire our stop motion Shorts. Its a bizarre experience to see the filmmakers trying so hard to tell this very generic coming of age tearjerker (and they know it is) while screaming to the audience, 'forget the dying girl. Watch us instead'.
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