More experienced viewers probably will, for their part, spot the movie’s downbeat twists from a mile away. To which Maddy, understandably smitten, replies: “I didn’t see that dark turn coming.” Soon, Maddy and Olly are meeting for chastely unrequited face time, in which he proves his teenage Byronic mettle by offering such cheap poetic insights as, “The whole point of waves is to suck your feet from under you so that you drown faster.” Mills Goodloe (“The Age of Adaline”), based on Nicola Yoon’s 2015 YA novel.Ĭan the seal on Maddy’s autoclaved world withstand the pressure of such swelling adolescent hormones - not to mention Yoon’s plot requirements? Don’t bet on it. In short order, they are exchanging flirty banter - or what passes for such, in the cloyingly arch screenplay by J. Into this already too-perfect scenario comes a Cute Boy Next Door: Olly (Nick Robinson), who immediately strikes up a texting relationship with Maddy after they briefly lock eyes from their bedroom windows. Much-loved, family-owned Elvis Cinemas shutters all three locations around Denver Maddy, who hasn’t left the house in 17 years, is remarkably poised, articulate, well-adjusted and smart - a poster child for, presumably, home schooling who, having just turned 18, whiles away her time by reading, drawing, writing sassy, haiku-like classic-movie reviews on her personal website and taking online architecture classes, for which she builds surprisingly accomplished scale models, all of which include a small astronaut figurine. Although Mom’s specialization is never mentioned, she must be a celebrity plastic surgeon to afford this germaphobe-in-outer-space setup, which includes a full-time nurse/chef (Ana de la Reguera) and high-tech appliances controlled by Amazon Echo.

Inside her hermetically sealed Los Angeles mansion, which includes an airlock, a machine for irradiating her wardrobe of plain white T-shirts and a sanitizing bathtub, Maddy (Amandla Stenberg) lives with her widowed mother (Anika Noni Rose), who is, conveniently, a physician. The teen romance “Everything, Everything,” about a girl with SCID who can’t leave her house for fear of dying from a common cold - it’s like being allergic to everything, she says - is not.

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