Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

Release date: 2015-07-01
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Production Co: Indian Paintbrush
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Rating: 7.7/10
Length: 1h 45min

Storyline

Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.ndnd

Plot Keywords

terminal illness, leukemia, teenage boy, based on novel, friendship, high school, death, unreliable narrator, mother son relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, narrated by character, black comedy, pillow, interracial friendship, teenage girl, cancer, friend, dying, high school senior

Short Review

There's plenty to like here, but the movie focuses on the least interesting person on the screen, a curious choice considering we're talking life and death.