Teen fantasy to leave you in good spirits . . .

AIMED squarely at teens and young adults, Every Day is a romantic fantasy adapted for the screen, from a novel of the same name, by Jesse Andrews.

He also wrote the novel Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, and the subsequent screenplay for the excellent film version, so he has an impressive pedigree and it shows. Every Day, directed by Michael Sucsy, bowls along likably.

The idea is that a benign spirit wakes up every day in the form of a different American teenager. One day it might be male, the next female.

It could be black, white, fat, slim, but whatever body it inhabits, it spends 24 hours being the best version of that person it can be.

When it injects decency and compassion into her normally boorish boyfriend, 16-year-old Rhiannon (Angourie Rice, pictured) then continues to fall in love with it in every subsequent form it takes.

For a high-concept fantasy to work perfectly, as films such as Big (1988) and Groundhog Day (1993) did all those years ago, it must sweep you along, posing no questions that can’t be satisfactorily answered.

Every Day doesn’t quite achieve that. It too often trips over its own rather unwieldy premise. But it has energy and charm, and it’s always nice to see an inversion of the standard horror-film trope of good people being possessed by evil spirits.