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Midnight Sun

Name: Midnight Sun
Director: Scott Speer
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 2017
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Cast: Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle, Quinn Shephard, Ken Tremblett

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Romance
Drama

2017
Scott Speer
91 mins
12A

Summary

An epic romantic drama, MIDNIGHT SUN tells the life-affirming story of 17-year-old Katie Price, sheltered since childhood with a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. During the day she is housebound but it is after nightfall that Katie's world opens up, in the dark, when she ventures out to the local train station to play her guitar for travelers.

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Dave Aldridge

This routine "disease of the week" weepie treads no new territory. The medical condition - a genetic allergy to sunlight - has been featured on screen before. And often in rather better movies. Seventeen-year-old Katie (Bella Thorne) has lived a nocturnal life since birth as exposure to the rays of the sun brings her out in potentially fatal lesions. That makes it rather problematic for her burgeoning summer romance with hunky Charlie (Patrick Schwarzenegger), especially as he spends two-thirds of the movie unaware of her condition, and probably thinks she's a vampire. Schwarzenegger (son of Arnold) is pretty enough, but a bit of a blank canvas. Fortunately, Thorne is convincing, and comedy actor Rob Riggle, playing it pretty straight as Katie's dad, steals all his scenes. The result is a corny, contrived and something of a "meh movie that will principally appeal to those who like a good, old sob.

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6.6/10