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Midnight Sun (2018)

Midnight Sun poster
Directed by
Scott Speer
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 3,559 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl with a rare condition that makes sunlight deadly falls in love with a boy she meets at night. She must choose between hiding her illness or risking everything to have a normal relationship.

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What happens

Midnight Sun is a 2018 American romantic drama film based on the 2006 Japanese film A Song to the Sun. The film was directed by Scott Speer and written by Eric Kirsten, and stars Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Rob Riggle. The story is about a teenaged girl with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a medical condition which prevents her from going out into sunlight. When she meets a boy, she struggles to decide whether to tell him about her condition or pretend to live a normal life. Principal photography began on October 12, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The film was released in the United States on March 23, 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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