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Synopsis: Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finecky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Aimee has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): James Ponsoldt
Actors: Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson, Masam Holden
Production: A24
  10 wins & 31 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
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2013
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Afraid of failure...

of letting people down...

hurting people...

getting hurt.

Before, if I kept my guard up and

focused on other things, other people...

if I couldn't even feel it,

then no harm would come to me.

I screwed up.

Not only did I shut out the pain,

I shut out everything-

the good and the bad-

until there was nothing.

It's fine to just live in the now...

but the best part about now

is there's another one tomorrow.

And I'm gonna start making them count.

Sincerely, Sutter Keely.

P.S. I don't know if this

was due a long time ago.

Probably was. That's fine.

May be too late for this essay.

It's not too late for me.

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Scott Neustadter

Scott Eric Neustadter is an American screenwriter and producer. He often works with his writing partner, Michael H. Weber. The two writers wrote the original screenplays for Days of Summer and The Pink Panther 2. Days of Summer is based on two real relationships Neustadter had. more…

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