Yes, this is a chick flick but it's only a one-hankie weeper. It is a sweet story lightened by genuinely funny, whimsical humor, e.g., did you ever see a bundt cake on life support? Yes, read it again. That's what I said: A bundt cake...on life support.
Director Stella Meghie ("Jean of the Joneses"), working from a script by J. Mills Goodloe based in turn on the New York Times best seller by Nicola Yoon ("The Sun is Also a Star"), has crafted a sweet PG-13 movie about young love under very trying circumstances. Meghie has perfectly captured the awkwardness of adolescence and teenagers' heedless embrace of opportunity (plus their annoying aptitude for technology).
Meghie's cast:
- Amanda Stenberg ("The Hunger Games") Maddy has grown up with SCID (Severe Combine Immune Deficiency) and has never had a normal life (think "Boy in a Bubble"). She is now 18 and those pesky hormones are asserting themselves. New neighbors have moved in and she can see them from her sterile home.
- Anika Noni Rose (LOTS of TV) Maddy's mother Pauline is a doctor and as such she can monitor her daughter's health and can afford the hi-tech environment required by a patient with SCID.
- Nick Robinson ("Jurassic World") Ollie is a new neighbor. He notices Maddy watching, so he and his sister bring a freshly baked bundt cake to her house. Her mother says she isn't there. Now he begins to wonder: is she under house arrest?
- Ana de la Reguera ("Jane the Virgin") Carla is the kind nurse who comes in each day to check Maddy's vitals. She is also a friend.
- Danube R. Hermosillo (Lots of TV) in a brilliant casting choice, Rosa looks like she really is Carla's daughter.
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Check this out:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3195254297
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Check this out:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3195254297
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