Hey Sydney, Come To Junkee’s Preview Screening Of ‘Me And Earl And The Dying Girl’
We have 30 double passes to give away to the festival-favourite, for a screening at Hoyts Lux, Broadway a week before national release.
So Sydney Film Festival overwhelmed you for another year, and now you have to wait for the films you missed to come to proper cinemas?
There’s an easier option: we have free tickets to give away to an exclusive Sydney screening of a festival favourite, a week before it gets national release.
Taking out both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl has had sold-out screenings at both Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, and has been met with mostly glowing reviews. Based on the YA novel of the same name, the indie comedy/drama tells the story of a teenager (Thomas Mann) and his friend Earl (RJ Cyler) befriending a girl from their high school (Olivia Cooke), who’s recently been diagnosed with leukaemia.
As that plot suggests, it’s very much concerned with friendship, feelings and YOUTH ISSUES, and it will probably make you cry. But to temper out some of that sentimentality, it’s also charming, hilarious, and surprisingly meta — and Nick Offerman plays the lead character’s father, occasionally holding a confused-looking cat.
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The film is released nationwide on September 3, but we have 15 double passes to give away to Sydney readers for our screening at the extremely fancy Hoyts Lux, at Hoyts Broadway on Monday August 24 at 6.30pm. (Sorry everyone else. If you’re in Melbs, the film has two more screenings on standby at MIFF this weekend).
To register for tickets, head to our Facebook page.