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Sep 3, 2014 · Based on the best-selling young adult novel by Gayle Foreman, If I Stay puts first love at the epicenter of a literal life and death struggle. When Mia Hall (Chloë Moretz) survives a tragic car ...
Aug 21, 2014 · If I Stay. Directed by R.J. Cutler. Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance. PG-13. 1h 47m. By A.O. Scott. Aug. 21, 2014. This summer has been bookended by two movies, both based on young adult best ...
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Aug 22, 2014 · The Times critic A. O. Scott reviews “If I Stay.”
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Violence & Gore. Mild 11 of 18 found this mild. The film centers on a teenage girl left in a coma in ICU after a car accident kills her family: her spirit or consciousness is shown wandering the halls of the hospital, barefoot, attempting to communicate with people and remembering her life in flashbacks. A family drives on a wet road in winter ...
By Gayle Forman. 'If I Stay' is a 2009 young adult fiction novel written by American writer Gayle Forman. The book centers around 17-year-old Mia, who after a tragic event involving her entire family, has to make a choice, a choice that will decide whether she accepts her fate and move on with life or not.
Austin Chronicle. Few genuine moments throw into even sharper relief the tedious trappings which surround this, your average teenage tragedy. 48. TheWrap Alonso Duralde. While many of the big moments of If I Stay can be easily dismissed, it's the little ones that elevate the film to at least mixed-bag status. 42.
At 17, Mia is a gifted cellist who has a good shot at attending Julliard. She, her former punk-rocker parents and her 7-year-old brother, Teddy, form a tight-knit, happy family. But when they take an impromptu trip to visit friends one snowy morning, an oncoming truck hits their car. Mia finds herself in a state somewhere between life and death.
