It isn’t until they’re all back in the van, however, that he unfolds the T-shirt to discover the Confederate flag splashed across it along with the phrase, “Heritage Not Hate.” He laughs about it and merely turns it inside-out before putting it onīy the end, nearly all the story’s questions, mysteries and dilemmas have been neatly answered and tied up, with just a dash of melancholy and a hint of maturity added to the mix as life moves on, albeit with more than a bit of fantasy where Ben and Lacey are concerned.

At a gas station pit stop somewhere in the South, Radar, who is black, decides he needs a new shirt and picks one up. Read more ‘Paper Towns’ Clip: Cara Delevingne Coerces Nat Wolff Into “Having Fun” (Video)įor entirely accidental reasons, Paper Towns will receive an enormous amount of unintended notoriety based on an incidental sequence that touches upon some major ongoing news. So Ben, Lacey, Radar and Angela all agree to pile into a minivan for the trek - provided Q guarantees their return by prom night. Some apparent tips involve references to such old standby counterculture heroes as Woody Guthrie and Walt Whitman, while others require repeated visits to a boarded-up building that director Jake Schreier ( Robert & Frank) tries but fails to build into spooky suspense sequences.ĭespite pretty flimsy evidence, Q manages to convince his pals that they should drop everything and join him on a drive all the way to New York state, where he is certain Margo’s hiding in a true “paper town” (a term for nonexistent communities created by map-makers to thwart plagiarizers). While Q and his borderline-nerdy buds Ben ( Austin Abrams) and Radar ( Justice Smith) count the days until graduation and mull over prom plans - the particularly obnoxious Ben fantasizes about taking blond bombshell Lacey ( Halston Sage), who’s just split with her boyfriend, while Radar plans to lose his virginity that night to his girlfriend, Angela ( Jaz Sinclair) - Q fixates on the idea that Margo has left hidden clues about her whereabouts that he begins piecing together and sharing with his patient but skeptical friends. She doesn’t show up at school for days, she’s left home. This one won’t rake in anywhere near the $307 million Stars generated internationally last summer, but Fox will still make a tidy sum with this modest entry that begins rolling out in foreign territories next week, ahead of the July 24 domestic bow.Īnd then she disappears. Part mystery story, part road movie and part pre-prom graduation romp, the film is most interesting as a perspective on adolescence in which all the girls are more mature, nervy and perceptive than any of the boys, who have some catching up to do if they’re to have a chance with any of them. Based on an earlier teen fave novel by The Fault in Our Stars author John Green, Paper Towns is a mild coming-of-ager about dawning awareness and life lessons learned among a small group of Florida high school seniors.

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