“Life’s too short to waste a second.”

From Five Feet Apart.

Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) has Cystic Fibrosis; she’s spent her life bouncing in and out of Saint Grace Hospital, getting her treatments, visiting from the required 6 feet away with her CFer best friend Poe (Moisés Arias), and socializing with nurses Barb (Kimberly Hebert Gregory) and Julie (Emily Baldoni).  On her latest hospital admittance, Stella meets a new patient on the floor: Will (Cole Sprouse).  Will also has Cystic Fibrosis and has spent years in hospitals all around the world, but on top of all that, he has a violent, unbeatable bacteria that has removed him from all transplant lists.  While Stella is super compulsive about her treatments and medicines, so much so that she created an app for medicine reminders, Will has gone the compete opposite way, skipping as many treatments as he can and counting down the days until he turns 18 so he can pull himself out of the newest bacteria-fighting trial that his mother (Claire Forlani) has placed him in.  While control freak Stella is initially infuriated by Will’s lackluster approach to his treatment, her disgust at his cocky attitude slowly morphs into a friendship centered around their treatments.  While her doctor (Parminder Nagra) and parents (Gary Weeks and Cynthia Evans) try to keep Stella safely away from Will, the change in both patients for the better is hard to deny.  The more Will and Stella get to know each other, the wider the required 6 feet between them seems to feel.  As Stella waits to move up the transplant list and Will waits for the freedom to stop treatment as an adult, he two will quickly have to decide how far are they willing to go to protect the one they love.

While many viewers will be drawn to the story because of its obvious similarities to 2014’s The Fault in Our Stars with terminally-ill young lovers, but this film does a solid job of keeping itself unique.  The movie is filled with CF treatment information, but it never dives too far into uncomfortable viewing.  Filled with both funny and heart-touching moments, Five Feet Apart is not to be missed.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 116 minutes |Genre: romance/drama |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 1 of 10

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