Me Before You (2016)

Jojo Moyes adapted her own popular novel and first time film director Thea Sharrock helmed this romantic piece about a quirky working class girl (Emilia Clarke) whose life is forever changed by the time she spends as the hired care taker and companion of a recently paralyzed executive and son of Britain's ruling class (Sam Claflin). The maudlin premise could have been too much had the leads not been likable and pored on the charm so heavy, Clarke in particular has gone all in on the quirky and adorable, with the film makers deciding the only why to make her look more average is to put her in ridicules clothing and cast Jenna Colman as her sister. A surprisingly thin Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter series) plays Clarke's running obsessed, take her for granted, long time boyfriend, who really doesn't deserve her anyway. As corny as it is when I first saw the previews for this it actually looked like something I would be interested in seeing, which is more then I can say for most of the romantic Hollywood dreck I see advertised. ***