A boy with vision

For those of you who’ve watched The Fault In Our Stars, Five Feet Apart or Midnight Sun, this well-acted and tightly plotted drama is about to appear in your streaming platform’s “recommended” section.

Whether selected by human or algorithm, it can’t have gone unnoticed that this is another film about a good-looking young couple kept apart by an ugly disease.

But this adaptation of Julia Walton’s award-winning novel isn’t your standard high-school weepie. Adam (Charlie

Plummer) is fighting a secret battle with schizophrenia, a condition Hollywood is more likely to bestow on an overacting psychopath than a teenage dreamboat.

Here, his inner voices appear as three distinct figures who Adam sees during times of stress – a hippy girl (Annasophia Robb), a shirtless lothario (Devon

Bostick) and a baseball bat-wielding bodyguard (Lobo Sebastian).

After accidentally injuring a classmate, wannabe chef Adam moves to a Catholic school where the headmistress offers him a deal – pass your exams, keep taking your medication, and your condition will remain a secret. For a while, his new experimental

Inner voices appear as three distinct figures Adam sees in times of stress

Adam slowly opens up to girlfriend

Maya

pills seem to work. His three imaginary pals disappear for long enough for him to attract the attention of Maya (Taylor Russell), a grade-a student with a secret of her own.

But when his mum Beth (Molly Parker) begins dating Paul (Walter Goggins), the upheaval at home coincides with the drug sparking some unexpected side-effects.

Formula dictates that we will visit the prom and witness a grandstanding graduation speech. But suspense and hallucinatory sequences mean neither play out as we expect. We really feel for this young man who leaves us understanding a little more about this horrible illness.