Five Feet Apart (2019) on Netflix
Stella, seventeen, manages her cystic fibrosis with strict routines. She meets Will, a fellow patient whose careless approach to treatment frustrates her, and the rules keep them six feet apart.
- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb7.2/1099,096 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes52%
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Plot summary
Stella Grant, seventeen, lives around her cystic fibrosis regimen, tracking her medications and posting videos about the illness. Will Newman, another CF patient, is in the hospital for a drug trial against a bacterial infection that makes him ineligible for a lung transplant, and he follows his treatments loosely. Stella offers to help him keep to his regimen, asking only that he draw her picture, and they begin doing their treatments together. Because patients with CF can infect each other, they must stay six feet apart; nurse Barb, who once cared for two CF patients who fell in love and contaminated each other, watches for that. Stella's best friend Poe, also a patient, keeps her company.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Five Feet Apart (2019)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Baldoni first became involved with cystic fibrosis when he directed the documentary My Last Days, where he met YouTuber Claire Wineland and hired her as a consultant for the film; Wineland died from complications of a lung transplant in September 2018, a few months after filming was completed.
- The film was promoted using Instagram, where the studio paid influencers to post about hardships involving love and physical distance; the promotion was perceived as tone-deaf and trivializing a fatal disease, and after the ensuing backlash the campaign was pulled and the studio apologized.
