EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING

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This disease of the week, coming-of-age mixedrace romance is an exercise in tasteful restraint.

Glossy, charming, sweet and unthreatening, Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson are the fresh-faced, clean-cut 18 year olds. Maddy suffers from an auto immune deficiency and lives a life of luxurious captivity with no practical knowledge of life or love until Olly the hot young hunk moves in next door. She dreams of plunging into the ocean with wild passionate abandon, almost as if it’s a metaphor for sex or something.

However, as they can’t even touch each other never mind kiss, they initially have an online flirtation instead. Additional impediments are her over-protective mother and his abusive father.

This wish fulfilment fantasy offers a selfindulgent wallow for young teenage girls suffering summer holiday lovesick blues.