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Movie Mayhem – Five Feet Apart

Five Feet Apart — 2019; Directed by Justin Baldoni; Starring Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Moises Arias, Kimberly Hebert Gregory and Parminder Nagra

You know what you’ll be getting before even purchasing a ticket to a film about cancer or terminal illness. There will be plenty of discussions concerning the illness itself and how it affects everyone around it; there will be plenty of jokes about having the illness; there will be a death of a pivotal character that will help someone in the film find some sort of truth; the third act will be, in a lot of ways, bittersweet; and there will be lots of tears from the viewing audience. Five Feet Apart doesn’t back away from any of these tropes, but it still manages to build upon them in a creative way that the film doesn’t feel so much like just another teen cancer movie, but a song for life and the need we all have for companionship, love and family.

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