Like Russell Crowe’s John Nash in A Beautiful Mind, he’s orbited by a cast of supporting characters that only he can see and hear, representing various aspects of his psyche. Adam Petrazelli (Plummer), a high-school senior, has trouble knowing what’s real and what isn’t. But compelling performances elevate the sometimes familiar material, along with a gratifyingly frank, therapeutic depiction of mental illness, in this case schizophrenia. I was reminded at times of The Fault in Our Stars, another YA adaptation about illness with low-key religious themes and a central relationship that morphs from platonic friendship into romance. Words on Bathroom Walls, based on the young-adult novel by Julia Walton and directed by Thor Freudenthal ( Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Diary of a Wimpy Kid), is predictably more conventional than those films. Each of these young actors had a brilliant starring role in an extraordinary, structurally audacious recent movie, Lean on Pete for Plummer and Waves for Russell. SDG Original source: National Catholic RegisterĬharlie Plummer and Taylor Russell in the same movie is almost too good to be true.
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