This is a drama about a couple of
teenagers with different social backgrounds. There is Nick who
lives alone with his mother since his father has died. They are
well-of financially wise but Nick doesn't feel that he gets the
support he needs from his mother, especially regarding his
writing. Nicks friend, Pete, is an ordinary middleclass kid
whose life we don't get to know very much about. And then there
is the tough Annie, who has become involved in criminal circuits
since her mother died and her father has married an other woman.
She is close to her younger brother but doesn't feel like the
rest of her family cares about here.
Annie, who wrongly thinks that
Pete has squealed on her for a robbery she has done, wants to
get back at him. Pete, says that it was Nick that has squealed
to get off the hook. He says that it is Nick because he thinks
that Nick has left the country for a trip to London. However,
Nicks plane is delayed so he is still in town. Annie and her
gang gets a hold of Nick and starts to beat him up. Nick gets
badly injured and he is left for dead in a well hidden storm
drain in the woods.
Next day we see that Nick is back
at school, just like nothing has happened. It soon turns out
that nobody else can see him, he is invisible to the rest of the
world. At first he thinks he is dead but soon finds out that he
is in a place somewhere between life and death. He now has to
make sure that his body gets found before he really dies. This
turns out to be very hard since he can't communicate with the
normal living people. As it turns out, the only one he seems to
be able to get through to is Annie, the one who almost killed
him. At first he is very angry on her but soon gets to know her
like another person.
I think this was a well played
and directed movie with many beautiful scenes and an overall
good "feel" about it. It was also interesting to see how they
cinematographically solved the fact that Nick seemed to be able
to interact with people and objects in the real world but that
he actually wasn't.
This movie has a rather low
rating on IMDB but I think it deserves more. Even though it
wasn't the best movie I have seen, it is definitely worth
seeing.
7/10