A high school senior’s anonymous world unravels while making bizarre films and befriending a classmate with leukemia.
Melancholy, with dry wit. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
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No sex or nudity and some strong language, about what a PG-13 should carry.
Our estimate: fine from about 13. Rated PG-13.
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Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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