Is this a lighthearted teen coming-of-age story, or an eerie science-fiction nightmare about wayward medical ethics? In a baffling attempt to create an upbeat story about a group of spunky terminally ill kids voluntarily submitting to medical experiments worthy of concentration-camp doctors, this film exhibits the worst aspects of both genres. Barney Snow (Elijah Wood) is an exception among the terminally ill crowd: He’s only got a bad case of total amnesia, the result of a head-on car crash. Dr. Marie Harriman (Janeane Garofalo) just might have the remedy for his empty noggin. But as the only living boy among the walking dead, she makes him promise (in painfully sti...
Released:
2000
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
95 mins