The complications of taking your own life.

Rating: Null/10 (16 September 2016)

My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library.
Set in England, Sam Claflin is Will Traynor, young successful businessman from a wealthy family. As the movie starts we see him going out to the street, momentarily distracted, and he is hit by a large motorcycle.
The movie doesn't dwell at all on the accident or its immediate aftermath, instead it switches to two years later. Will is now living back with his parents, he is mostly a quadriplegic and confined to a motorized wheelchair. He has a professional caregiver who comes in especially for the medical and personal care issues. But Will isn't happy or even faking happiness, he is always in a rather sour mood.
Emilia Clarke (of 'Game of Thrones' fame) is ditzy Lou Clark, a 26-yr- old with a job as a clerk, as we meet her near the end of her day's work she is given an envelope with her last pay, she has just lost her job. She is from a working family and with an unemployed dad, she needs to find work to help with expenses.
Through a placement agency she is presented a job, unclear what exactly it is but it would be working for Will's parents, she would be a companion of sorts for Will, drive him places, find ways to keep him entertained. Even though Will himself doesn't want any part of that plan. Will is dour, Lou always dresses colorful and funky and is always upbeat.
So the story here really is to see if somehow Lou can break through and get Will to better enjoy his handicapped life. Things are complicated quickly when Lou learns that Will is planning to travel to Switzerland for assisted suicide. He has promised his family he would give it 6 months before making his final decision.
So the story is both funny and painful. Both main actors do fine jobs with their roles. Life is seldom simple.
SPOILERS: In the process both Will and Lou fall in love with each other. Lou even lets go of her existing relationship. She desperately wants Will to stay, build a life with her. But as much as he would like that he can't forget his former active lifestyle. And he doesn't want Lou to be burdened, perhaps for many years, with him in his condition. So he goes through with his plans and in his will leaves a handsome sum of money for Lou, as he says, not so that she is fixed for life but enough to allow her a fresh start and a real career.