Paper Towns (2015) on Netflix
PG-1320151h 49mAdventureComedyDramaMysteryRomance
Quentin Jacobsen has loved Margo Roth Spiegelman since she moved in next door. One night she climbs through his window with a revenge plan. The next morning she is gone.
- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.2/10112,346 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes58%
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Plot summary
Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman are neighbors in Jefferson Park, an Orlando, Florida, subdivision. They were childhood friends, then drifted apart over nine years, after the day they found the corpse of a local lawyer who had killed himself following his divorce. In high school Margo is popular and adventurous; Quentin is unassertive and unpopular, and spends his time with his friends Ben and Radar. One night Margo comes through his window and asks him to join her for a night of revenge: her boyfriend Jase has been sleeping with her friend Becca. After buying supplies, the two play humiliating pranks on Jase, Becca and their friends, among them Margo's best friend Lacey. The following morning Margo is absent from school, and her family does not file a missing persons report, since she has run away before.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Paper Towns (2015)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Although the novel is set primarily in Orlando, Florida, North Carolina's tax incentives for filmmakers made it the affordable choice for principal photography, and the crew was encouraged to finish filming before December 31, 2014, the date when certain incentives would expire.
- Although the novel features a scene set in SeaWorld, the location was changed for the film after the release of the CNN documentary Blackfish, which was highly critical of the theme park keeping orcas.
- Between December 2 and 8 the crew filmed at Central Cabarrus High School in Concord, North Carolina, which was transformed into "Jefferson Park High School", and cast members were dressed for warm weather even though it was cold.
- To tie in with the release of the film, an extra 1.5 million paperback copies of the book were printed.
