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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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Comedy drama starring Olivia Cooke and Thomas Mann. Geeky Greg Gaines is pressured by his mother into befriending a classmate who has recently been diagnosed with leukaemia. The relationship looks doomed to failure, but a bond develops over a shared sense of humour and Greg's love of movies.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Stella Papamichael

Cool quirkiness eventually gives way to poignant sincerity in a comedy drama that won both the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance film festival. Thomas Mann succeeds in imbuing his self-obsessed character, Greg, with a soulfulness that doesn't feel affected when his mother (Connie Britton) forces him to hang out with a girl (an understated Olivia Cooke), because she's been diagnosed with leukaemia. Inevitably, a genuine friendship develops based on their shared sense of humour - a pleasing twist of the surreal - which Greg otherwise expresses through spoof videos of classic movies ("A Sockwork Orange", "Senior Citizen Cane") crafted with his straight-talking pal Earl (a deadpan RJ Cyler). The relationship between boy and girl develops in a surprising way, however, eschewing romantic melodrama. Instead, it's rib-ticklingly funny, full of witty exchanges and neat visual flourishes by director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. The fact that he also manages to deliver a heart-rending finish is testament to Jesse Andrews's sensitive adaptation of his own novel.

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Cast

rolenameGreg GainesThomas Mann (2)Rachel KushnerOlivia CookeEarlR J CylerGreg's dadNick OffermanRachel's momMolly ShannonMr McCarthyJon BernthalGreg's momConnie BrittonScott MayhewMatt Bennett

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rolenameDirectorAlfonso Gomez-Rejon

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Theatrical distributor

20th Century Fox

Released on

2015-09-04

Languages

English

Guidance

Swearing.

Available on

DVD

Formats

Colour

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