Now Is Good
Tessa is dying of acute lymphoblastic leukemia but her positive mental attitude drives her to write a list of her want-to-do list before dying. On the top of her list are the desire to do dangerous things and hope to lose her virginity.
28 November 1988
7 August 1958, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK
6 December 1984, London, England, UK
5 September 1974, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
1968, Cardiff, Wales, UK
13 March 1992, Holloway, London, England, UK
13 June 1987, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK
September 30, 2012
The problem isn't so much that Now Is Good will reduce its teenage target audience to public sniveling, but that it does so by pushing the most obvious and most sentimental buttons repeatedly, relentlessly and somewhat extravagantly.
September 25, 2012
Preteen girls will find this soppy romance unbearably romantic, but everyone else will struggle to sit through it
May 06, 2014
Stunning tearjerker about teen cancer has mature themes.
September 21, 2012
Why is [Dakota Fanning] living onscreen the way that so few female protagonists get to live? Because she's dying. *sigh*
October 30, 2012
There's nothing like a terminal illness for firing up a sappy romantic drama.
September 18, 2012
[Spikes] the Nicholas Sparks-style teen Love Story plot with refreshing flashes of sex, drugs and Ellie Goulding songs.
October 07, 2012
This latest directorial outing by Ol Parker has a veneer of cancer but it's the wish-fulfilment teenage romance at its heart that is most likely to appeal to its target audience.
January 03, 2013
Surprisingly harsh when it comes to the dented appeal of its lead character, the movie is a predictable drag, attempting to cozy up to its young adult literary origins in a decidedly tuneless fashion.
September 30, 2012
Fanning gives a truly impressive and memorable performance in this ... which will give Parker another dark horse in the running.
September 21, 2012
I'm sorry to say, that despite Dakota Fanning's powerful dying performance, Now Is Good - is not a good movie. Unfortunately, it looks like a 90's daytime soap and pulls at the heart strings like Michael Bolton's mullet.
September 18, 2012
Hellbent on inspiring a rush of wind-beneath-my-wings, life-affirming feeling.
September 21, 2012
Is Now Is Good a great film? Almost certainly not. But its effectiveness is frightening. Bring whole sheaves of tissues.
