Real Tearjerker

Rating: 6/10 (11 June 2016)

I saw "Me Before You", starring Emilia Clarke-Game of Thrones_tv, Terminator Genisys; Sam Claflin-The Hunger Games movies, Pirates of the Caribbean:On Stranger Tides; Charles Dance-Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Game of Thrones_tv and Janet McTeer-Insurgent, The Woman in Black.
This is a romantic movie that will have it's target audience-ladies- grabbing for a tissue. Yep, a real tearjerker. Sam plays a banker from a wealthy family. He has a girlfriend-not Emilia-but looses her after he is hit by a motorcycle and is paralyzed from the neck down. I guess she was the shallow type, because she ends up marrying Sam's best friend. Emilia is hired by Sam's parents, Charles & Janet, to help take care of Sam; nothing too physical, just mostly to talk to him and keep him company. Emilia has a boyfriend but you can tell that they are not meant to be together and he won't be around at the end of the movie. Sam was real active physically before his accident so he is really depressed now. He even tries to kill himself-which is hard to do when you are a quadriplegic-and he tells his parents that he will go to Switzerland to do the job right, but he gets talked into waiting 6 months before saying his final goodbyes. That is where Emilia comes in. Emilia has a perky personality, always talking and she dresses in bright & outlandish styles of clothing, and she hopes to change Sam's mind about his death choice-when she eventually finds out about it. Like most romantic movies, they don't get along at first but soon..... It's rated "PG-13" for thematic elements and sexual content-no nudity- and has a running time of 1 hour & 50 minutes. It's a descent movie for what it is, not one that I would buy on DVD-I'm not the target audience, remember?-but a good rental, if you like these types of movies.