Paper Towns

PG-13

Released Jul 24, 2015

1 hr. 49 min.

Comedy

Drama

Adventure

Mystery & Thriller

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Young and shy Quentin (Nat Wolff) is in for the night of his life when Margo (Cara Delevingne), the most popular student in high school, recruits him to help her play mischievous pranks on the friends who betrayed her. The next day, however, the mysterious Margo is nowhere to be found. With help from a few buddies and some cryptic clues that she left behind, Quentin embarks on an obsessive mission to find the girl who stole his heart and made him feel truly alive.

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Paper Towns isn't as deep or moving as it wants to be, yet it's still earnest, well-acted, and thoughtful enough to earn a place in the hearts of teen filmgoers of all ages.

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Ola G

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen (Nat Wolff) lives across the street from Margo Roth Spiegelman in Jefferson Park, a subdivision of Orlando, Florida. She is a childhood friend from whom he has drifted over nine years after they discovered the corpse of a local lawyer, Robert Joyner, who killed himself after his divorce. Unbeknownst to Margo, Quentin has been infatuated with her since they became neighbors. After reaching adolescence, Margo (Cara Delevingne) becomes one of the popular girls, with an adventurous reputation, at Jefferson Park High School.[a] In contrast, Quentin is kind, unassertive, and unpopular. His friends are fellow outcasts Benjamin "Ben" Starling and Marcus "Radar" Lincoln. One night, Margo climbs through Quentin's window and recruits him for an all-night, revenge adventure. She has discovered that her boyfriend, Jason "Jase" Worthington, is having sex with one of her friends, Rebecca "Becca" Arrington. After buying supplies, Margo and Quentin pull humiliating pranks on Jason, Rebecca, and their friends, including Margo's best friend, Lacey Pemberton. Margo believes Lacey knew about but did not tell her about the infidelity. However, it is later revealed that Lacey was unaware until she was pranked. The event gives Quentin hope that he finally has a chance to develop a closer relationship with Margo. He begins to learn how to assert himself and to take chances. The next day Margo does not come to school and, after a few days, some consider her missing, while others conclude she left for an undisclosed location... "Paper Towns" received mixed reviews from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus reads, "Paper Towns isn't as deep or moving as it wants to be, yet it's still earnest, well-acted, and thoughtful enough to earn a place in the hearts of teen filmgoers of all ages." "Paper Towns" is a bit wishy washy to my mind, trying to blend a coming of age setup with some sort of "mystery" structure with high school as a backdrop. The film doesn't really know what it wants to be. There's no real highs and no real lows in it. It's more of a flatlining movie that plays infront of you. Nat Wolff is somewhat colourless, while Cara Delevingne does have something and her piercing eyes are just lovely. But, I reckon the script (based on the book with the same name) doesn't reach a satisfying result if you ask me, despite ok performances and an ok production.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/11/24

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A C

I appreciate when a movie is so similar to the book 🙏

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/19/23

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BLEDEN

nao entendo quem nao gosta, a parte da viagem é incrivel.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/07/23

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KB B

I thought it was pretty well done though not on par with The Breakfast Club one of my favorites in this type. It's worth the watch. 3.5 stars

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/05/23

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Tony

It is a simple, light hearted movie. I loved the humor. Some of it is cheesy--sure. Maybe it's more a 3 star. I can see many thinking it isn't all that. Reminds me a bit of The Breakfast Club. Thumbs up.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/16/23

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Isaac V

When I read the book, I was totally in awe of the characters, each one of them was amazing (in their own way), and even the secondary characters were very familiar, you could feel them important within the story. After finishing the book I went to see the movie and was very disappointed. The flattest characters I've ever seen in a movie, devoid of emotions. And boy did they remove several important parts of the development of the characters themselves. You never see a great relationship between them in the film, a strange atmosphere is created where at no time do you believe that they are friends, everything happens so fast and without explanation that it loses all the magic of the book itself. That they removed the moment where they raided SeaWorld, it takes a lot out of the character of Q and Margo. And the ending, oh my god, the ending is horrible, where was the magic of the ending, the whole journey, just disappointing. If you haven't read the book or know something about it, I think you'll be able to enjoy it while eating your dinner or just to hang out, but if you've already read the book, please don't make the same mistake as me and don't watch it, it's not worth it

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/20/23

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Jake Schreier

Director

Nat Wolff

Quentin Jacobsen

Cara Delevingne

Margo Roth Spiegelman

Halston Sage

Lacey Pemberton

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Max Weiss

Baltimore Magazine

I like everything about Paper Towns except for its premise and central romance. Yes, I know those sort of seem like dealbreakers, but the things I liked about Paper Towns marginally outweighed the things I didn't like. Marginally.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 12, 2016

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

'Paper Towns' may well be the Manic Pixie Dream Girl's nadir.

May 27, 2016

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

The film is thankfully shorn of the sentimentality which weighed down The Fault in Our Stars.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 20, 2015

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

The cast brings the material to life, breathing life into a story that is simultaneously overwritten and under realised.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 3, 2021

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Shikhar Verma

High on Films

Paper Towns is a coming-of-age film that doesn't always get it right. But, when it does, it transcends the message across quite evidently.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 24, 2021

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Hollywood can surprise us and serve up an honest, funny, entertaining, and endearing film.

Rated: 3.5/4.0

Sep 19, 2020

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Synopsis

Young and shy Quentin (Nat Wolff) is in for the night of his life when Margo (Cara Delevingne), the most popular student in high school, recruits him to help her play mischievous pranks on the friends who betrayed her. The next day, however, the mysterious Margo is nowhere to be found. With help from a few buddies and some cryptic clues that she left behind, Quentin embarks on an obsessive mission to find the girl who stole his heart and made him feel truly alive.

Director: Jake Schreier
Executive Producer: John Green, Isaac Klausner, Nan Morales, Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
Screenwriter: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Fox 2000 Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Drinking|All Involving Teens|Sexuality and Partial Nudity|Some Language)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 24, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 9, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $31.9M

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