Everything, Everything

 

Everything, Everything 2017

• Director: Stella Meghia
• Based on the book by Nicola Yoon
• Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, Ana de a Leguera
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Amandla Stenberg – Dear Evan Hansen, The Darkest Minds, The Hunger Games
• Nick Robinson – Kong Skull Island, The Fifth Wave
• Why? I like the author
• Seen: 18 January 2024

        Maddy (Stenberg) is 18 years old and hasn’t been outside the house for most of her life. She suffers from an uncommon form of SCID which means that any common bacteria would kill her. The house where her widowed mother, Pauline (Rose), a doctor, is sealed as tight as a hospital infection ward. Then a boy, Olly, (Robinson) moves in next door.

       They start a friendship by waving through their windows, texting, phoning, and then Maddy breaks all the rules, they meet in person, and the predictable happens. They fall in love.

       There are enough surprises and twists to keep it from being too banal and the two leads do so well that it works better than most teen romance films.    

 3 ½ * of 5