Me Before You

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Me Before You

PG-13

2016

1h 50m

Romance

Drama

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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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Critics Consensus

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Allen Almachar

The MacGuffin

07/13/2020

C

It doesn't have anything interesting to say about its themes or characters - they all exist within a generic and simplified love story.

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JC C

@Judinator Dec 7

This movie started out great but it quickly became apparent that it was promoting assisted suicide. But assisted suicide from the perspective of being a filthy rich person who can’t bear the thought of living with struggles and pain. Let’s not forget being loved by a beautiful woman and having every need met and cared for - something normal people would never obtain. If you’re paralyzed and poor - forget it - you should’ve killed yourself yesterday. Imagine being depressed and lonely and then watching this absolutely legendarily twisted view of life from the perspective of a narcissistic rich person who’s now become a quadriplegic - the plot - don’t try, choose death.

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KaLyn H.

@luvsdeceit Nov 21

This was beautiful. I mourned it for so long. I’ve lost someone before and the thought of knowing I’m saying goodbye is harder than never saying goodbye. The ending was beautiful because I kept my hopes up convincing myself of the best because it’s just a movie but I don’t think I’ve cried for this long throughout and after a movie.

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Nicky A

Nov 20

Love it, but repespectfully, never again. It killed me, but it was beautiful.

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Noel L

Nov 17

This movie is "Dying Young" meets "The Intouchables". So sweet, so sad, and hard to hate

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Erica P

Nov 10

It had so much potential. I watched it twice and it broke my heart twice. Redo the ending and this movie would be great and inspirational. The cast was fantastic and truly trap you in the story. All is great, except for the ending 😭😭😭😭😭.

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Dan R.

@rasorsedge Nov 5

The best ending of any movie I have ever seen!

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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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