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Herald Publications does not guarantee that the advertiser’s claims are true nor does it take responsibility for those claims. Film Review Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Is a Sincere, Offbeat Dramedy. By Jeffrey Rindskopf for CINEMACY It’s hard to deny the power of the two anchoring performances in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl—those of Thomas Mann, or Me, and Olivia Cooke, or the Dying Girl. Mann plays Greg, a reserved teenager whose high school life depends on a carefully cultivated neutrality and lack of involvement, soon threatened when his mother decides he should befriend an ailing classmate he barely knows. So we meet Olivia Cooke, Thomas Mann, and RJ Cyler in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight. Rachel (Cooke), a teenager recently diagnosed with cancer who rejects Greg’s obligatory pity before she’s eventually charmed by his awkward magnetism. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl thrives on the strength of these two characters and the easychemistry of the perfectly cast young actors. Their first full scene together, wherein Greg breaks through Rachel’s depressed façade with some off-the-cuff observations about the attractive pillows in her room—don’t worry, it works better in context—is easily one of the film’s best. Though this relationship is surely the film’s most important, it doesn’t always get the focus it deserves, as the film spends much of its time rounding out the supporting players in Greg’s life. Greg makes arthouse parody films with his best friend, or “coworker” as he insists on calling him, Earl (RJ Cyler), he endures the doting of Rachel’s wino mother (Molly Shannon), he enjoys exotic foods courtesy of his anthropologist father (Nick Offerman), he watches movies during lunch in the office of a cool teacher (John Bernthal)—the list goes on. There are certain clichés that almost inevitably come with any modern independent coming-ofage tale, and unfortunately, despite its strong lead performances, Me and Earl doesn’t completely avoid those clichés. The movie hinges upon the HOUSE FOR RENT 2/1 hillside home, short walk to beach! Hdwd flrs, fplc, w&d, garage, deck w/view, yard, pets OK. Short-term lease, avail. 7/1 – 9/30, month-to-month after. $2700/mo. 310-590-5931. PRIVATE LESSONS Private Lessons Guitar, Piano, & moreAll Levels, Styles, & Ages! In home / at studio / online For more info - www.elsegundomusic. com / or call Edwin at (305)582-2645 TUTORING SERVICES Summer tutoring for grades Special Education/General Education. Kourtney Alarcon 818.523.8958. kourtneyla@gmail.com TUTORING SERVICES Computer coding sm group class for grades 9-12. Starting June . Text or call Annette 310-702-9328. GARAGE SALE Sunday, June 14. 324 Concord St inthe back alley, ES. 7am - 1pm. Lot’s of clothes and toys! HOUSE FOR RENT 3bd/3ba. 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Proceeds will benefit the Lawndale Elementary School District. Please register by June 15th at www.LEDSF. org/tourney IUSD Implements School2Home Technology The Inglewood Unified School District and the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) are announcing a pilot program to implement School2Home, a program that has been proven to improve student achievement by providing improved access to technology. Under the program, starting next year, 300 Inglewood 7th graders at Crozier Middle School will have home access to Chrome book computers, while their parents and teachers will receive training about how best to use computers to learn and their school, Crozier will have a wireless connection to the Internet. Both CETF and the Inglewood Free Summer College Classes for Current High School Students High school students can get started on their college education at El Camino College this summer. Free summer classes are available to eligible high school juniors and seniors who want to earn college credits. Students must be California residents to be eligible for a fee waiver. El Camino College’s eight-week summer session begins June 22 and the second six- Hawthorne Chamber June Mixer Hawthorne Chamber of Commerce will be holding a mixer at Sam’s Club on 1399 Artesia only event exclusive to the Sears Home Appliance Showroom, offering discounts not found anywhere else, including regular Sears locations. Join us on Sunday, June 14 to enjoy exclusive savings, a play area for your children, flexible financing, our price match guarantee, as well as complimentary cookies, juice, and water. For more information Sears Home Appliance Showroom, 2851 W. 120th St, Hawthorne, 90250, 323.777.2975. Se habla Espanol. Join us on Sunday, June 14 to enjoy exclusive savings, a play area for your children, flexible financing, our price match guarantee, as well as complimentary cookies, juice, and water. For more information Sears Home Appliance Showroom, 2851 W. 120th St, Hawthorne, 90250, 323.777.2975. Se habla Espanol. Unified School District are contributing to the partnership. School2Home, which is managed by CETF, tackles two of California’s most critical and related challenges: Increasing student achievement at low-performing middle schools to help close the Achievement Gap and increasing the adoption of computing skills and broadband service by the families of underserved middle school students to help close the Digital Divide. For more information, please visit www.school2home. org and view a video on School2Home at http://www.school2home.org/s2hvideo week summer session begins July 7. A variety of classes are available in many subject areas. To participate, high school students must apply online at www.elcamino.edu and submit a Concurrent Enrollment Application. For more information on how to earn college credits while still enrolled in high school, go to: www.elcamino.edu/studentservices/ highschool/. Blvd., from 5:30pm to 7:30pm on June 18, .FNCFSTOPONFNCFSTr arc of Greg, a mostly well-sketched character whose crippling self-esteem issues come to the film’s forefront once he unwillingly embarks on a near-endless endeavor to create a movie for Rachel. There’s real poignancy to the tale, as Greg is forced to confront his own feelings of self-hatred along with a newfound fear of death that comes from being in such close proximity to someone who is really, truly, slowly dying. It’s puzzling then, why director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon felt the need to dilute the poignant tale with so many extraneous stylistic choices, with so much quirk. The movie opens with an unrelated voiceover and a couple cutesy claymation interludes as Greg ponders the best way to begin a story—both the claymation interludes and the voiceover continue intermittently and unnecessarily throughout the film. In one scene, Earl and Greg get unexpectedly high, and even hallucinate giant costumed animals, after consuming some mysterious drugged comestibles. One puzzling subplot involves a pretty classmate who unknowingly leads Greg on, only for her to inevitably profess actual interest in him, though he’s hardly said more than a dozen words in her presence. It’s not that these clichés are inherently bad, but it’s hard to justify their existence within the context of Me and Earl, when the film’s runtime would be better spent allowing the characters to develop naturally. While Greg may be well-drawn, many of the supporting players never get their fair share of screen time or development due to the film’s preoccupation with such quirk. In spite of his title billing, Earl for one never really develops beyond a straight-shooting comic relief who occasionally doles out information on the source of Greg’s insecurities, hinting at strained relationships with his parents—relationships that also get short shrift. The film is instead crowded with diversions that don’t really do anything to propel the narrative or its characters forward. Plus, they’re just not very funny or interesting. It’s a shame, as Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is often far smarter than its cookie-cutter coming-of-age plot might imply. There’s a lot to enjoy when the film occasionally finds its groove, letting the characters develop and bounce off of each other naturally, but there’s a lot to groan about too. The former slightly outweighs the latter, and the film is made worth seeing thanks to the occasional flashes of brilliant writing and the strong cast. 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