“But if you’re lucky enough to choose, then reality, like actual reality… is the total bomb.”

From I Met a Girl.

Devon (Brenton Thwaites) is a schizophrenic musician that has dealt with the warring voices in his head, the good Mr. Rocket (Peter Rowsthorn) and the wicked Miss Needles (Anni Finsterer), while his brother, Nick (Joel Jackson), tries to look out for him.  However, things take a turn for the worse at Nick’s wedding, when Devon doesn’t take his medication and has an episode while singing for Olivia (Zahra Newman) and Nick’s reception and stabs himself.  After a long stay at a mental clinic, Devon is living with Nick and Olivia, but as they are expecting a baby, Nick tells Devon that he got him his own apartment, which upsets Devon.  When Miss Needles tells Devon to kill himself, he goes to the roof to jump off before Mr. Rocket talks him out of it, but Devon slips and falls.  When Devon wakes up he has been rescued by a woman named Lucy (Lily Sullivan), and the two have the perfect, unforgettable day together.  When he wakes up the next morning, Lucy is gone, and when he tries to find her with Nick, it seems to his brother like she was never really there.  Refusing to give up on what he knows was real with Lucy, Devon takes off across the country to Sydney to find her after remembering something she said while they were together.  Through a hectic series of events, Devon loses his medication, but continues on his trip across Australia, while Nick and Olivia are left at home worrying why he disappeared.  Totally on his own for the first time in his life, Devon faces a wide array of challenges while fighting to be a good person that could make Lucy proud.  However, the longer Devon goes without his medication, the more he struggles with stronger attacks from Miss Needles and a growing sense of despair that he’ll ever find Lucy.

Thwaites’s total commitment to his role as a young schizophrenic man is mesmerizing and quite often heartbreaking. Featuring both the highs and lows of mental health, this film is often intense, but the heart of the movie easily draws in viewers. I Met a Girl is a captivating look at mental health and the power of love.

| Rated: PG| Running Time: 110 minutes |Genre: comedy/fantasy/holiday|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 7* of 10|Nudity: 0.5 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 2 of 10

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