--- description: The latest teen cancer movie received several awards and a standing ovation at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. title: The Trailer for the Next Teen Cancer Movie Might Not Make You Cry image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Trailer for the Next Teen Cancer Movie Might Not Make You Cry  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Apr 8, 2015 8:21 PM CUT  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Apr 8, 2015 8:21 PM CUT In the trailer for _Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,_ a teenaged boy’s mother tells him that a girl at his school was diagnosed with leukemia. “That sucks,” says the boy. “It sucks,” replies his mom. “It sucks quite a bit,” says his dad. Like _The Fault in Our Stars_, the latest teen cancer movie to ravage the eye sockets of American moviegoers, _Me and Earl_ is adapted from an eponymous young adult [novel](http://jesseandrews.com/meandearl "undefined"). And like its predecessor, it appears determined to avoid the pitfalls of sentimentality that so often plague the genre. Judging by its performance at [Sundance](http://time.com/3691792/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-sundance-sundance-film-festival-academy-awards/ "undefined")—where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in addition to earning a standing ovation—it would appear that director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has successfully thwarted the maudlin trap. In the film, Thomas Mann plays Greg, who befriends the sick girl, Rachel (Olivia Cooke). Along with his friend and fellow amateur filmmaker Earl (RJ Cyler), he gets to work making a movie for her. Vintage cameras are wielded, high school cafeterias are conquered, tears are shed and lessons learned. The cast is rounded out with parentals played by Connie Britton, Nick Offerman and Molly Shannon. _Me and Earl and the Dying Girl_ hits theaters on June 12. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3814247/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3814247/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-trailer/"},"headline":"The Trailer for the Next Teen Cancer Movie Might Not Make You Cry","datePublished":"2015-04-08T20:21:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:14:47.762Z","description":"\"This isn’t a touching romantic story\"","url":"https://time.com/3814247/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-trailer/","keywords":["movies","Movie trailers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3814247/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-trailer/","name":"The Trailer for the Next Teen Cancer Movie Might Not Make You Cry"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Me And Earl And The Dying Girl Official Trailer","description":"Me And Earl And The Dying Girl Official Trailer","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/BAjDZXRd/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-04-08T19:46:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/BAjDZXRd.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3814247/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-trailer/","duration":"PT2M39S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3814247/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-trailer/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```