Monday, January 25, 2016

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 2015


     Greg is seventeen-years old and he doesn’t have any friends except Earl.  Greg doesn’t want to admit that Earl is a real friend that he’s had since childhood? They make unusual movies together and they wonder why they are still making them?  Greg’s mother tells him that Rachel from his school has leukemia.  She wants Greg to visit with Rachel and he doesn’t want to.  He forces himself to go but then he keeps going.  Greg and Earl make a movie for Rachel as a tribute.
     There were times I didn’t think there was enough to this film to keep watching?  I have a problem with the ending too because of a promise made much earlier in the film?  The reviews show that there is ambiguousness within critics too.  Like or hate?  2* (I didn’t like this movie)

105 min, Comedy directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon with Thomas Mann, RJ Byler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon.

Note:  Imdb 7.8 out of 10, 83% critic 87% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 1 ½*.  This film won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Special Note:  This movie was filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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