That Margo is something of a mystery becomes even more apparent the next day, when she runs away from home - not for the first time, according to her blithely indifferent mother (Susan Macke Miller). He also finds himself falling more in love than ever with Margo, a tougher, more independent-minded girl than you’d expect from her high-school queen-bee status. Shearer), or wrapping a girlfriend’s car in plastic, their pranks leave Quentin feeling alive in a way he rarely has. (Griffin Freeman), practicing some strategic hair removal on a hated jock (R.J. Whether they’re busting her cheating b.f. Figuring what the hell, Quentin becomes Margo’s accomplice over a long and crazy night of revenge against those friends who have betrayed her. So it’s something of a blast from the past when she appears one night and asks him to chauffeur her around the neighborhood while she takes care of some pressing business.
He’s a good student, shy but not irredeemably awkward, and utterly disinterested in going to prom, unlike his two best friends, the smart, self-conscious Radar (Justice Smith) and the goofy, perpetually horny Ben (Austin Abrams).īut Quentin is a romantic at heart, having nursed a longtime crush on his beautiful next-door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman (Cara Delevingne), who used to climb in through his bedroom window when they were kids - a habit she dropped around the time she became the most popular girl in school. That’s true even of those who try to rise above (or sink below) it all, like Quentin Jacobson (Wolff), a high-school senior in Orlando, Fla., who has long since absorbed the perks of being a wallflower.
Which is a bit of a shame, insofar as “Paper Towns” turns out to be the better movie - less tearjerking and more affecting, and populated by characters who are presented not as paragons of cancer-riddled virtue, but rather as flawed, ordinary young individuals who are touchingly vulnerable to the social pressures and sexual anxieties of contemporary teenage life. Weber) and an actor (Nat Wolff) with Josh Boone’s adaptation of “The Fault in Our Stars,” Schreier’s film seems unlikely to match its predecessor’s runaway commercial success ($307 million worldwide). Athough it shares several producers, a writing team (Scott Neustadter and Michael H.
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