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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015 105 min United States of America PG-13 12+
★7.8
Drama, Comedy
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
🎭 Based on
«Me and Earl and the Dying Girl»
byJesse Andrews
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Description
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.
US Gross:
$6.76M
Starring
Thomas Mann
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RJ Cyler
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Olivia Cooke
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Awards
Sundance Film Festival 2015
— Grand Jury Prize (Drama)
Sundance Film Festival 2015
— Audience Award (Drama)
Key opinion
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is widely praised for its unconventional approach to the terminal illness genre, trading melodramatic tropes for a sincere, life-affirming, and stylistically bold narrative. While a small minority finds the characters flat or the emotional resonance lacking, most viewers celebrate the film as a deeply human, visually creative, and refreshingly honest coming-of-age story.
| Acting | The performances by Thomas Mann and Olivia Cooke provide an authentic, resilient, and life-affirming core to the story. | |
| Direction | Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon employs a vibrant, inventive visual language that incorporates animation and stylistic nods to classic cinema. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay successfully balances black humor and sarcasm with a grounded, non-manipulative portrayal of friendship and mortality. | |
| Cinematography | Cinematography is highly stylized, using inventive camera work and unique aesthetic choices that distinguish it from standard teen dramas. | |
| Emotion | The film avoids conventional melodrama, offering a tone that is described as uniquely sincere, thoughtful, and life-affirming. | |
| Pacing | Pacing is a point of contention, with some finding the tempo well-suited to the story and others describing it as dragging or confusing. |