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Movie Info

Tessa (Dakota Fanning) makes a list of things she wants to do before she passes away from leukemia. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.

Rating:

PG-13 (Drugs|Brief Strong Language|Mature Thematic Material|Sexuality)
Genre:

drama, romance
Original Language:

English
Director:

Ol Parker
Producer:

Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Richard Hewitt, Sarah Harvey
Writer:

Ol Parker
Release Date (Streaming):

May 7, 2013
Runtime:

1h 43m
Production Co:

Blueprint Pictures

Cast & Crew

Dakota Fanning
Tessa Scott

Rose Leslie
Fiona

Olivia Williams
Mother

Kaya Scodelario
Zoey

Jeremy Irvine
Adam

Paddy Considine
Father

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Critic Reviews for Now Is Good

All Critics (27) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (12)

Is Now Is Good a great film? Almost certainly not. But its effectiveness is frightening. Bring whole sheaves of tissues.

September 21, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Donald Clarke
Irish Times
Presses the obvious buttons so hard that you feel totally manipulated.

September 21, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Derek Malcolm
London Evening Standard
As the two-dimensional Perfect Boyfriend, Irvine chases any sense of reality from the screen.

September 20, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Jessica Lambert
Little White Lies
This teen cancer drama never really rises above being a collection of cliches, despite some decent performances.

September 20, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Phelim O'Neill
Guardian
Hellbent on inspiring a rush of wind-beneath-my-wings, life-affirming feeling.

September 18, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Cath Clarke
Time Out
[Spikes] the Nicholas Sparks-style teen Love Story plot with refreshing flashes of sex, drugs and Ellie Goulding songs.

September 18, 2012 | Full Review…

Guy Lodge
Variety
To be avoided at all costs, Now Is Good is in fact far from good, but instead a tiresome, often appalling drama with little or no honesty or tact.

August 23, 2018 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Joseph Walsh
CineVue
Stunning tearjerker about teen cancer has mature themes.

May 6, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Tracy Moore
Common Sense Media
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.

January 3, 2013 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…

Brian Orndorf
Blu-ray.com
There's nothing like a terminal illness for firing up a sappy romantic drama.

October 30, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Andy Lea
Daily Star (UK)
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.

October 7, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film
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 30, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Mary Clare Waireri
Fan The Fire