Five Feet Apart (2019) movie poster

Five Feet Apart (2019)

"When life keeps you apart, fight for every inch."
ThumbScore
👍 88%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 52%
RomanceDrama

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Runtime
1h 56m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
8.2/10 (5,874 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
52%
Metacritic
53

Cast

Haley Lu Richardson as Stella Grant · 74% avg
Cole Sprouse as Will Newman · 74% avg
Moisés Arias as Poe Ramírez · 71% avg
Kimberly Hébert Gregory as Barbara
Parminder Nagra as Dr. Noor Hamid
Claire Forlani as Meredith Newman · 73% avg
Cynthia Evans as Erin Grant
Gary Weeks as Tom Grant · 67% avg

Is Five Feet Apart good?

Yes. 88% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 52%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#86 / 1262 · Romance
Rank in its year
#17 / 289 · 2019

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Five Feet Apart is a 2019 American romantic drama directed by Justin Baldoni. Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson star as Will Newman and Stella Grant, two teenagers with cystic fibrosis who meet and fall in love while being treated at the same hospital. Their romance is complicated by the strict medical requirement that CF patients maintain at least six feet of distance from each other to prevent potentially fatal cross-infection — a rule Stella modifies to five feet, reclaiming one foot of closeness as an act of rebellion against the disease that controls their lives.

Haley Lu Richardson delivered a performance of radiant charisma and devastating vulnerability that elevated the film above its potentially melodramatic premise, making Stella's determination to live fully despite her condition feel authentic rather than sentimental. The five-foot rule provided a powerful physical metaphor for the barriers that separate people, a metaphor that gained unexpected resonance when COVID-19 social distancing mandates arrived a year later. Five Feet Apart earned $91 million worldwide on a $7 million budget.

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