Paper Towns (2015)

PAPER TOWNS  (2015)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Jake Schreier
    Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams,
    Justice Smith, Halston Sage, Jaz Sinclair
With prom just around the corner and graduation not long after that, a girl named Margo exacts some revenge on those she believes have wronged her, with the help of a classmate who lives across the street. When she turns up missing the next day, her accomplice and a few close friends embark on a mission to track her down, following a series of cryptic clues she's left behind. This defies belief at almost every turn, but I'm not sure how much that matters. It's a coming-of-age fantasy, the kind of story a lovestruck teenager might invent for himself and imagine playing a part in. Cara Delevingne plays the elusive Margo, and she's just the kind of girl you maybe knew in high school, who would drive you crazy on the way to breaking your heart. But the real story is with the young amateur detectives, who all grow a little 0r learn something as they try to solve the case. Schreier and his young cast do a nice job of capturing what the last days and weeks of high school feel like, when it hits you that however good or bad or mixed-up the experience has been, it's over, you're moving on, and whatever it is you're moving on to, nothing will ever be the same.