While it’s not the most popular sub-genre of the teen romance pantheon, films involving one or both romantic interests being sick have been making waves over the last two decades. Movies such as “A Walk to Remember” and “The Fault in Our Stars” are pop culture touchstones. There was even a moment following those movies where films such as “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” and “Me Before You” were poised to bring in the era of romances centered on folks with illnesses or disabilities.

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In 2014, John Green had audiences ugly-crying in the theater when the movie adaptation of his novel “Fault in Our Stars” hit the big screen. And in 2017, Nicola Yoon’s “Everything, Everything” stole our hearts with another star-crossed, illness-filled romance. Now, director Justin Baldoni (“Jane the Virgin”) introduces the latest tragic romance, this time between teens with cystic fibrosis, in the upcoming film “Five Feet Apart.”

As seen in the trailer, the film follows the story of Stella, a seventeen-year-old in and out of hospitals due to her genetic disease that weakens the lungs, causes unrelenting infections, and difficulty breathing for most of life.

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