A 17-year-old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.... (Full plot summary below)
A 17-year-old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.
Leave your thoughts about Midnight Sun.
One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekBathetic and corny, and more suitable for a young people's cable TV channel than the big screen. |
FilmDrunkVincent ManciniIt's a movie about a love-struck teen who can't go outside or else she'll get a tumor, and it's every bit as over-the-top, melodramatic, and badly acted as an actual teen romance. I kind of loved it. |
MattPais.comMatt PaisIt would be nice if movies stopped trying to make young girls aspire to be princesses. |
Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonAlthough its two photogenic teenage leads generate some decent chemistry and charm, that alone can't save this aggressively sentimental romance. |
The Hollywood NewsKat HughesMidnight Sun might not have the most original of stories, but it has a ton of heart, charm and emotional charge to melt the coldest of hearts. |
UproxxVince ManciniIt’s still saccharine, overwrought, blandly acted, painfully earnest, and uber-dramatic, and constantly staring longingly at the night sky and bodies of water for some reason, but… teen romance is all of those things. It fits. Maybe the Sparks formula isn’t so bad as long as Sparks himself isn’t involved. |
Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineSlick, familiar but affecting romantic tearjerker. |
Common Sense MediaMichael OrdoñaTear-jerking romance is mild except for teen partying. |
AXS.comTom SantilliA movie about a girl who cannot be in the sunlight is more than a contrived plot, but this movie is about life, not death, and somehow it makes you feel for these characters. |
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireBoth actors are gorgeous, of course, which heightens the romantic fantasy of it all, but there's also a naturalism to them that's appealing. |