30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
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Section: American Teen

Me & Earl & the Dying Girl (2015) 13

United States of America | 2015 | 105 min.

Greg Gaines is an awkward and self-loathing high school student determined to go unnoticed into adulthood. He avoids more intense relationships with others and spends most of the time making parodies of famous films with his only friend, Earl. Well-intentioned, his mother forces Greg to befriend Rachel, a classmate who has been diagnosed with leukemia. Against his convictions, Greg does it. Greg and Rachel gradually become inseparable friends. They find they really love each other. But when Rachel gets worse, Greg retreats into his inner world...

CountryUnited States of America
Year2015
Duration105 min
Rating13
LanguageEnglish
SubtitleCzech
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Screenplay Jesse Andrews
Director of Photography Chung-Hoon Chung
Music Brian Eno
Edited by David Trachtenberg
Contact Park Circus

Biography

Actor and director. He graduated from NYU and the American Film Institute. He's helped create many TV series, directed the feature films The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014), Me & Earl & the Dying Girl (2015), and The Current War (2017).

Teenagers, Relationships, Friendship, Romance, School, Illness