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ArtsNFashion
Director:
R.J. Cutler
Cast: Chloe
Grace Moretz, Stacy Keach, Joshua Leonard, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley
We seem to be inundated with Young Adult Novels
these days and most of them have been, or are soon to be, movies. The latest
drama to hit the screen is the MGM-New Line Cinema-Warner Bros joint production
of the hit book If I Stay by novelist
Gayle Forman. Nothing sells better than tears and angst, and these young novels
seem to have captured the market for reducing audiences to a shambles and
candidates for the psych ward. Emotional lives have been ruined from reading
these “weepies.” And---their authors have become rich!
The lovely Southern Belle Chloe Grace Moretz
(she’s from Georgia) stars as Mia, a 17 year-old young woman obsessed with
music who is striving to get into Juilliard School of Music in New York. Her
biggest decision up until now has been to decide whether to pursue her studies
of the cello or to follow her rebellious boyfriend Adam (Jamie Blackley).
They’re in love and he plays the guitar in a band. But that is not the most
important decision she will have to make.
On a carefree outing with her family, a
tremendously violent car crash suddenly changes everything in Mia’s life. She
hangs in the balance between life and death as she suffers in a coma. She is
fully aware of all events happening around her and can see her loved ones,
family and friends alike, who want her to live. Gran’pa (Stacey Keach) arrives
and snuffles over her. As she hovers in a nether world, she must make the most
important decision of her young life---to live or die. What will she do, and
does she have the strength to make such a momentous decision?
Ms. Moretz is a comely young actress who has
had some important success in films such as Kick
Ass (2010), Martin Scorcese’s Hugo 3D,
(2011) which was nominated for 11 Oscars® and allowed her to star with
Oscar® winner Ben Kingsley,Carrie
(2013), and Muppets Most Wanted
(2014). She’s the “go-to” actress when producers want a fresh, beautiful teen
to drag the young set into theater seats.
The accomplished actress was drawn into acting
by her older brother Trevor, who had been accepted into the Professional
Performing Arts School in New York. He taught her things about show business
that sparked her interest in drama.
She and her family moved to Hollywood and she
made her television debut n a CBS series, The
Guardian. Her stock went up after she appeared in The Amityville Horror and was nominated for a Young Artist Award.
Her career skyrocketed after that recognition and she was cast in several important
pictures as mentioned above.
Her most famous picture was Kick Ass in 2010. She learned to do all
her own stunts on location. She had trained for three months with Jackie Chan’s
stunt crew and learned how the great action star did his own stunts in films.
Chloe made quite an impression in that film.
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