IMDb plot summary: Two teens who live the same day repeatedly, enabling them to create the titular map.
Directed by Ian Samuels. Starring Kathryn Newton, Kyle Allen, Jermaine Harris, and Anna Mikami.
This movie dances RIGHT along the line of being too cute, too simplistic, too Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but it ultimately manages to avoid most of those traps and create a really charming rom com and coming-of-age drama. It shifts focus in the final act of the film in a way I deeply appreciate, which pulls it right out of those Manic Pixie Dream Girl tropes for me and set it back in the real world among real characters. The two actors playing the leads are charming and funny and likable kids, maybe a little self-absorbed but never just jerks for no reason. Suspend disbelief a bit and it's a delightful watch.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things > Jumanji
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things > The Black Cat
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things < He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things > Muppets Most Wanted
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things > Cloud Atlas
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things > The Big Sick
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things > Grease
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things < Six Degrees of Separation
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things < Chariots of Fire
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things > The Grapes of Wrath
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things > Kramer vs. Kramer
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things < Short Term 12
Final spot: #440 out of 3351, or 87%.
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