Me Before You is clichéd, but it’s buoyed by Clarke’s delightful lead performance and a tender touch from director Sharrock. Neither are we stunned when their first kiss happens before a picture-perfect skyline on an exotic beach. We can predict, for example, that Louisa will dump her clueless and health-obsessed boyfriend (Matthew Lewis, whom Harry Potter fans will recognize as Neville Longbottom) for the sensitive and mysterious Will.

Much of Me Before You is cut from the cloth of conventional romance. Soon the two are off on a series of adventures, during which the Laws of Cinema demand that Louise and Will fall in love. Louise decides that she must empower Will to experience the beauty and goodness of life. But Louise soon discovers that Will wants a physician-assisted suicide her employment was a last ditch effort by Will’s parents to change his mind. Though Will cynically despises Louisa’s efforts at kindness, she determines to reach him.Įventually Will’s guard lets down, and their friendship starts to bloom. Desperate for work, she becomes a full-time caretaker and companion for the disabled Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), a wealthy but embittered neighbor. She’s happy and unambitious, which turns out to be a problem when her family needs more income. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.Me Before You, directed by Thea Sharrock and based on a bestselling novel by Jojo Moyes, tells the story of the sweet-tempered and naïve Louisa (Emilia Clarke). Will is acerbic, moody, bossy–but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected.

Will has always lived a huge life–big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel–and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident.

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life–steady boyfriend, close family–who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. USA Today’s top 100 books to read while stuck at home social distancing From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.

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