Cliché' Filled Tear-Jerker

Rating: 5/10 (22 August 2014)

I saw "If I Stay", starring Chloe Grace Moretz-The Kick-Ass movies, The Amityville Horror_2005; Jamie Blackley-The Fifth Estate, Snow White and the Huntsman; Joshua Leonard-Shark Night 3D, The Blair Witch Project; Mireille Enos-The Killing_t.v., World War Z and Stacy Keach-Sin City:A Dame to Kill For, The Bourne Legacy.
If you know me, I am not the target audience for this movie; That would be a teenage girl. But I went to see it because I like some of the actors in it, plus, and this is the big factor, I had to work inventory today for about an hour and the times were right for this showing, with the other movies being about two hours later. Anyway, this is a teen love story, based on a book for teens that was written by Gayle Forman and it really tugs at the old heartstrings; I heard lots of sobbing throughout the theater so if you take a date/wife to see this one, you better have some Kleenex with you. Chloe is a 17 year old cellist that hopes to study at Julliard-she loves classical music and no, I don't mean classical rock, she plays a cello for goodness sakes. Jamie plays her slightly older love interest that heads up a rock band that is on the verge of hitting it big. Joshua and Mireille play Chloe's parents who are old-school rockers-code meaning cool parents-and Stacey plays her grandpa. The tears start flowing when the Chloe family is in a car wreck, putting Chloe in a coma and killing the rest of her family-I'm not giving anything away here, it's all in the trailers. Chloe becomes a ghost-like out of body version of herself-she can see everything but no one can see or hear her. Flashbacks show the happy and the not so happy times in Chloe's life and the tough decisions she has to make. First and foremost, should she go back into her body and rejoin the living? Then, should she go across the country to Julliard and possibly loose the love of her life? What do you think? Most of the story is cliché' filled drama that you can see plot developments coming from a mile off. It's rated "PG" for sexual situations-no nudity-and drug/alcohol use and has a running time of 1 hour & 46 minutes. It's not one that I would buy or even rent. If you are a teen age girl, then you might enjoy it. Otherwise, I would wait until it comes to cable.