This newly released coming-of-age film is an ideal opener to our programme of films for Transition Year students. Greg is convinced that the key to surviving the high school experience is to maintain pleasant relations with all of the various groups while avoiding real friendships in any. His closet bond is with Earl, with whom he makes parodies of classics of world cinema. When Greg’s parents force him to spend time with Rachel, a classmate who has just been diagnosed with leukaemia, he is reluctant, as, it turns out, is she.