Mike McCahill 

If I Stay review – Ghost for the young-adult crowd

Chloë Grace Moretz has an out-of-body experience as a teen who survives a head-on crash, writes Mike McCahill
  
  

Chloë Grace Moretz in If I Stay
Spectral … Chloë Grace Moretz in If I Stay. Photograph: Doane Gregory/AP Photograph: Doane Gregory/AP

The great Young Adult Allowance Grab continues. This entry comes on like a shrugging Ghost: sensitive cellist Mia (Chloë Grace Moretz) is facing make-or-break with rocker squeeze Adam (Jamie Blackley) when her dad totals the family car, leaving her in spiritual limbo. Weirdly, nothing much develops from there: spectral Mia has no agency over her corporeal self, so she just sits around ICU eavesdropping on pre-emptive eulogies, and awaiting Prince Charming's return. The smart cast occupy themselves with the dog-eared emotions scattered around the waiting rooms, but their Mumfordised singalong to the Smashing Pumpkins' song Today sorely sorely necessitates a plug somewhere somewhere being pulled.

 

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