High-schooler Greg is an awkward movie-loving outsider, afraid of intimate social interaction, that has his outlook on life changed when he accidentally befriends Rachel, a classmate recently diagnosed with leukemia.
It's too easy to compare it to The Fault in Our Stars but the film (and the Jesse Andrews novel it's based on) is completely different in tone, mood and themes. There's no love story to be found but a coming-of-age story about friendship, finding one's purpose and the stark pain of reality. There's moments of gut-busting hilarity to compliment the mature heartbreak. It's rare that each character, major & minor, chew up each scene they're in but that's the case here. They're all interesting and entertaining to come familiar with. The photography is both beautiful and startlingly creative with it's dizzying camerawork and snippets of stop-action animation.
4 Big Ships out of 5
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