I Think I'm Sick

I liked the film, the acting was good. Good storyline, always something happening. Unpredictable ending. Not a feel good movie but makes you value life. Good job on a first movie people, love the YouTube content! Looking forward to seeing more films.

The film is set in an American high school. A suicidal boy embarks on making friends. You follow hin through a busy semester.

If I would need to criticise anything: Sound track in opening is a bit too much, the scene where Will goes to the shower his towel is on his shoulder but in the next cut it disappears and in one scene where Will is talking to the girls dad the seems to be a dead pixel. These are all of course all very minor details but I dunno this review needs to be long.

Good movie!

This is a debut film from a director who has hundreds of thousands of followers for his you tube how-to videos.

A self-penned, directed and edited film, it's a fabulous piece of work, both darkly funny and terribly sad with brilliant, well drawn 3D characters that are flawed, beautiful, troubled and funny.

There's plenty of excellent dialogue and laugh out loud moments among the devastating sadness that surrounds the film. Really excellently done, subtle points that at times fill you in on the back story without ever punching you in the face with clunky exposition.

The actors all do terrific jobs, with a range of characters that are really well written with masses of empathy for them. The story almost never goes quite where you expect it to.

It will be a terrible shame if this doesn't get distribution and get to be seen by many more people.

If you get the chance to see this and you like low-key indie films with great characters that doesn't follow the Hollywood style this is an absolute must-see.

First act was very slow, second act gets you hooked and the third act sells it. Somewhere around the middle I was worried it wasn't what I thought it was but wow... Exceeded my original expectations:) Connor Russell (Will) and Wes Brooks (Spanky) were great, but the daughter-father dynamic of Tia Tardy (Robin) and Paul Arthaud (Ed Young) were unbelievable. Tia Tardy definitely sold this movie for me, fantastically natural of an actress. Felt the really strong influence of Manchester by the Sea, with some scenes being eerily similar, but overall great first feature, really found the rhythm halfway.

Wow! What a powerful movie. Tia's performance...especially that one scene (watch the movie, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about), UNBELIEVABLE. Connor's performance was great. Whoever played Spanky, amazing. Everyone was good. The cinematography, beautiful. The sound design, beautiful. This movie has one of the most heart wrenching scenes I've ever seen. I don't cry a lot from movies, but I look like a waterfall right now. This as a debut film is mind blowing. Deserved all the awards it won and wouldn't have been surprised if it won more. Well done Danny and crew! Can't wait to rewatch it.

This film proves to anyone who doubts it just how much subtlety a well-written, carefully-crafted, beautifully performed film can carry.

Danny Gevirtz trusts that we can reach the right conclusions without needing to have everything spelled out for us or hitting us over the head with the Message Hammer. When dealing with subjects like these (and the trigger warnings are VERY important), that's even more vital than in other films. The subtlety and artistry with which this movie is made is remarkable.

As an indie film (and one without major distribution at the time of writing) there's a near-zero chance it'll enter the race for Oscars, BAFTAs, Golden Globes etc. But that's too bad for the awards voters: they're missing something very, very special.

This should be on every film school curriculum and in every filmmakers' library as proof positive you don't need to treat your audience like idiots to get your point across.