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Me Before You

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Young and quirky Louisa "Lou" Clark (Emilia Clarke) moves from one job to the next to help her family make ends meet. Her cheerful attitude is put to the test when she becomes a caregiver for Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), a wealthy young banker left paralyzed from an accident two years earlier. Will's cynical outlook starts to change when Louisa shows him that life is worth living. As their bond deepens, their lives and hearts change in ways neither one could have imagined.
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Me Before You benefits from Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin's alluring chemistry, although it isn't enough to compensate for its clumsy treatment of a sensitive subject.

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Carrie Autostraddle 08/17/2021
Ableism as Romance makes disabled partners look like burdens and erasure look like love. Go to Full Review
Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 10/10/2016
1/5
Schmaltzy when it should be moving, phoney when it should be sincere, and borderline offensive when it should be thought-provoking, the high-profile rom-com Me Before You is almost a perfect cinematic calamity. Go to Full Review
Tara Brady Irish Times 08/08/2016
2/5
Me Before You has no interest in the realities of life with disability; it is, rather, yet another variant on a threadbare formula. Go to Full Review
Jimena Díaz Pérez EscribiendoCine 6d
6/10
Me Before You is a film that works well within its genre, but its weakest point is that a few situations are predictable. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Therese Lacson Nerdophiles 03/03/2021
3/5
The ultimate treatment of the heart of this story leaves us with a more bitter than sweet taste. Go to Full Review
Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com 09/01/2020
1.0/4.0
Sigh. Folks. It's 2016. I mean, seriously. Aren't we past these pathetic stereotypes by now? Can't we move away from these ridiculous disability as tragedy storylines? Go to Full Review
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Manu N @Manux 7h Louisa Clark me parece interpretada de una manera muy extraña por la actriz (me pareció no muy buena actuación y hacía caras muy raras) , lo que me sacó de la inserción. Además de que personajes como este y el del novio atleta me parecen escritos de una manera muy exagerada y cliché. Me gustó la escritura del personaje de will y como se resuelve la trama. See more Jen C @Daphnie7 3d This is a horror movie. See more Santiago C @framesanty 5d Dentro del genero de la película me parece agradable, alcanza a rozar las fibras del sentimiento pero no logra un impacto real que te lleve a una reflexión profunda del delicado tema que tratan en la película, además de par de cliché fuera de lugar es una película que vale la pena ver y quizá desconectar por un rato el lado mas radical y realista para sumergirse en un poco de romanticismo. See more Juan Pablo J Jan 6 Third time watching this movie, and I don’t know if it’s because I’ve seen it so much or what, but I like it less every time. What a shitty movie, and I used to love it. I think the mistake was watching it so many times. Honestly, I don’t know what it’s supposed to teach, beyond the idea that everyone owns their own life, but in the end the only thing it leaves me with is that love isn’t capable of everything, and that there are unavoidable barriers to being happy. I understand the movie’s purpose, but honestly it makes zero sense. If he knew he was going to die no matter what, why create emotional attachment from her toward him if he planned to leave? Top 10 most selfish characters in cinema. Anyway, I think it’s more because of the disappointment I felt, and not because having a sad ending makes it bad. Five Feet Apart is a super sad and spectacular movie in my opinion, just like The Fault in Our Stars. Still, I’m giving it a good rating because of the affection I have for it. See more Brian B @BrianBRP Jan 3 Whilst not a great movie this film has a good cast, proper chemistry between its leads and a good script. Where it falls down is in its failure to explore the difficulties of romance between a couple where one of them is able bodied and the other a quadriplegic. This could have been portrayed in a way that was both sensitive and humorous but it was ignored completely. This was also true of his reasons for choosing assisted suicide. Such lack of depth means that whilst it was a good watchable movie, it might possibly have been a great one . Opportunity missed! See more Aurelia K @keyssshh Dec 28 if u need a good cry and u love romance, go watch this.. ill recommend See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Young and quirky Louisa "Lou" Clark (Emilia Clarke) moves from one job to the next to help her family make ends meet. Her cheerful attitude is put to the test when she becomes a caregiver for Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), a wealthy young banker left paralyzed from an accident two years earlier. Will's cynical outlook starts to change when Louisa shows him that life is worth living. As their bond deepens, their lives and hearts change in ways neither one could have imagined.
Director
Thea Sharrock
Producer
Karen Rosenfelt, Alison Owen
Screenwriter
Jojo Moyes
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Rating
PG-13 (Thematic Elements|Some Suggestive Material)
Genre
Romance, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 3, 2016, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 16, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$56.2M
Runtime
1h 50m
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