Cello prodigy in Portland Oregon wants to attend Julliard.

Rating: Null/10 (7 December 2014)

I really like this movie. I am a life-long musician and the theme of this movie captured me totally. Plus the young actress carries this movie and shows why she is one of the best teenagers acting currently.
Chloë Grace Moretz (of "hugo" fame) is Mia Hall, part of a wonderful family and with a younger brother she loves. At a very young age she took and interest in the cello and at 16 had developed into a prodigy of sorts. She didn't even realize fully her capabilities.
But tragedy strikes and everything changes. She has choices but the movie is about how she will make her choice and what that will lead to.
The rest of my comments contain story SPOILERS and should not be read by anyone who doesn't know the story here.
It snows and the family takes advantage of school being canceled for a snow day, perhaps unwisely take a road trip. In the icy conditions a truck skids into their car, everyone is badly injured, and Mia finds herself in the snow, apparently unharmed. But as she walks towards the wreckage sees herself, badly injured and unconscious. Her spirit is observing this, she gets into the ambulance with her injured self, and much of the remaining movie is in the hospital as she and others are treated.
But it isn't that simple, as she is required to "decide" whether she will let herself actually die, or be brought out of the coma, we see her life the past year and a half leading up to that, how she meets a boy at school who is a rocker, how she finds love through that relationship, her audition for Julliard, and a number of other things.
She finds out her mom and dad both die, then her brother does too, she doesn't want to awaken to live as an orphan. But the pivotal scene is when she (her spirit), unseen and unheard by others, hears her cello music over the hospital's paging system. But as she rushes to the room where her unconscious self is, finds that her boyfriend is playing the music into her ears using headphones. She has him, she has Julliard, she has a life ahead and wakes up.
The boyfriend is played by Brit Jamie Blackley as Adam who does all his own singing with his fictitious rock band. Moretz took cello lessons to appear realistic, but face replacement technology in post-production was used to make it appear she was really playing.