WHO’S IN IT?
Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games), Nick Robinson (Jurassic World), Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls), Ana de la Reguera (Nacho Libre), Taylor Hickson (Deadpool), Danube Hermosillo (film debut), Dan Payne (The Cabin in the Woods), Fiona Loewi (Buying the Cow)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Stella Meghie (Jean of the Joneses), director; J. Mills Goodloe (The Best of Me), writer; Elysa Koplovitz Dutton (Idiocracy) and Leslie Morgenstein (Sex Drive), producers; Ludwig Göransson (Creed), composer; Igor Jadue-Lillo (The Kids Are All Right), cinematographer; Nancy Richardson (Warm Bodies), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Maddy (Stenberg) is an eighteen-year-old with a rare immuno-deficiency disease that prevents her from leaving her home, where she lives with her overprotective mother (Rose). Her desire to escape and explore the world around her is greatened when she forms an attachment with her new next-door neighbour Olly (Robinson), and as she falls for him she concocts a plan to see the world at last…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
This teen romance is sure to win over spare audiences that are still fixated on their adoration for The Fault In Our Stars, with its mixture of extreme medical issues and tearful sentiment.
