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Everything, Everything (2017)

Poorly Constructed Plot

My girlfriend absolutely loves chick flicks. While I am not a fan; I'm more than happy to watch what will make her happy. This movie was horrible. That's coming from her. I cannot describe the relief I felt when my girlfriend turned to me at the end of the movie and said "that was awful."

Spoilers here: Onto the aspects of the movie itself. You have a very generic male character who has a vague background of living with an abusive and dead-beat father. I'm going to assume that he's the first boy to ever move in next-door to Maddy (the girl with the "disease"). With the help of a nurse, the boy (who the audience will come to know as Olly) is allowed to have a couple of secret visits with Maddy. Long story short, the two of them fall in love via text message and through these visits. The nurse gets fired (after 15 years of service) for these visits, the mother of Maddy turns out to be semi-deranged, Olly moves his family to New York, and Maddy finds out the truth of why she's been locked away for 18 years.

If you enjoy cringing excessively through a movie, this is the flick for you.