![]() Occasionally Pauline still mourns for Maddy’s father and brother, who died in a traffic mishap. Her one melancholy wish is to see the Pacific Ocean, which is just three miles away. Maddy lives the most solitary of lives, but insists to her mom that being alone isn’t the same as being lonely. One step into the outside world, and any virus or bacteria could prove fatal. Visiting nurse Carla (Ana de la Reguera) rounds out the isolated household. This structure was specially designed for her by her mother, Pauline (Anika Noni Rose). She’s just like the famous bubble boy, except with the run of an entire hermetically sealed house. A bedroom scene shared by its barely-of-age main couple, however, makes it doubtful fare even for mature adolescents.Īmandla Stenberg is Maddy, a very bright and literate teen who has been told since her earliest years that she has severe combined immunodeficiency, or SCID. NEW YORK (CNS) - Cynics beware: The teen-oriented romantic drama “Everything, Everything” (Warner Bros.) bears more than a little resemblance to one of those fairy tales involving a princess locked up in a castle who needs a handsome prince to rescue her.Īnachronistic thinking aside, director Stella Meghie’s adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s young adult novel - which features the genre’s familiar theme of embracing love even at the risk of death - is gentle, tasteful and faithful to the book. ![]()
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