Sickly sweet and sugar coated.

Rating: 3/10 (24 July 2014)

I went to see this with my two teenage daughters, after one of them had read the book. It basically is about two teenage cancer sufferers who are dealing with their illnesses and meet at a support group in a local church. She is the sicker of the two but he is the one who dies first. It just could have been so much more, with long scenes of seemingly irrelevant conversations and little about them. I felt that I didn't really know either of them at the end and it was all just a huge disappointment. It is a typical Hollywood conversion of a good book into an innocuous film. I didn't feel too cheated as we went on a Tuesday where tickets are cheaper but I'd have been annoyed to see this at full price. Great for girls aged 12 - 15 but not their parents!!!