I couldn't get enough of this movie. It's a sad one ofc, as it's about cancer. But it has humor in it and a bit of comedy. A perfect teen romantic movie. I just smiled the whole time watching this. Both characters are so cute and great. Surprisingly, it's not sad. They made the sadness became happy tears, which are great.

Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper) has an imaginary friend in the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot. He likes to crash funerals. He meets Annie Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) at the funeral of a cancer kid. She lives with her mother Rachel and sister Elizabeth (Schuyler Fisk). Mabel Tell (Jane Adams) is Enoch's aunt and guardian. Annie and Enoch begin a relationship. She has cancer and only months to live. He has to process the losses that he has suffered.This is a slow contemplative movie from Gus Van Sant. The imaginary pilot feels a bit gimmicky. Henry Hopper does an able job as an odd introvert. Fisk has some good scenes. Mia continues to shine. I like everybody but there is no tension. The movie mopes around in yet another sick person romance.

Charming is the word I could use to describe the effect this movie had on me. It felt so natural and real. I was sucked into that world so easily in a way that I forgot that the two love interests were acting. Mia Wasikowska has managed to worm herself into the top 10 of my favorite actresses & I have only seen 5 movies that she has been in. That's some incredible talent right there. The score of this movie is also fantastic. Just by telling you that it opens up with a Beatles song tells you a lot about it. One of my favorite musicians Sufjan Stevens' songs also feature in this movie. This adds to the natural feeling of the movie as you do not feel as if it's trying to force you into feeling emotions you don't feel. It's subtle that way. The most impressive thing was how they managed to make a sad storyline so beautiful and not a typical sob story. I was smiling at the end and not crying like I had expected. You learn about the characters and understand how this story will end pretty early on in the movie. "It's a story about a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals." Most of the time this would ruin the story for me and turn it into a snooze-fest. However, I did not even once feel that way with this movie. I fell in love Mia's character so easily. The wardrobe she had was perfect for the character of Annie. Her love interest Enoch played by Henry Hopper was great. I am going to watch every movie he appears in from now on because I was impressed. This movie had the formula of a typical romantic drama but could stand on its own, with its charm and adorableness of the characters. I would recommend this to anyone who likes cutesy love stories.

This is a quirky little tale about a young couple, both screwed up in different ways. Yet they find something wonderful in each other. She has cancer and will soon die. His parents are dead. Yet they find love.That's pretty much the entire film. There are lots of scenes with the pair being cute and lovable. Of course, she doesn't show any symptoms, and she doesn't mind that he has an invisible friend, even though he must be at least 16. Yes, the story line would be more believable if they were five-years-old. But as near adults it's very sickly sweet. It is also very male biased. Most of the content is about the male character, while the female is this perfect entity for him to interact with, less real, in many ways, than his imaginary friend. In fact, we're never actually told how the rest of her family feels about her death.It would have been better if the film was cut down to 45 minutes, and the next 45 minutes explained to us how the male character was going to be a successful adult while talking to his imaginary friend.