FIVE FEET APART (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen), Cole Sprouse (Big Daddy), Moisés Arias (The Stanford Prison Experiment), Kimberly Hebert Gregory (I Think I Love My Wife), Parminder Nagra (Bend It Like Beckham), Claire Forlani (Green Street), Emily Baldoni (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past), Cynthia Evans (The Lost & Found Family), Gary Weeks (Ride Along), Sophia Bernard (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Justin Baldoni (film debut), director, producer; Mikki Daughtry (film debut) and Tobias Iaconis (film debut), writers; Cathy Schulman (Crash), producer; Brian Tyler (Now You See Me) and Breton Vivian (film debut), composers; Frank G. DeMarco (Rabbit Hole), cinematographer; Angela M. Catanzaro (The Foreigner), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Stella (Richardson) and Will (Sprouse) are two teenagers living in a hospital as cystic fibrosis patients. They form a connection with each other, but because of their life-threatening illnesses they are not allowed to come with five feet of one another, which begins to really complicate things…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The latest sick-teen romance to come in the wake of The Fault In Our Stars is a sweet and life-affirming tale that puts cystic fibrosis firmly in the centre of everything.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 22ND MARCH 2019

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