If I Stay

PG-13
Starring: Chloe Grace Moretz, Jaime Blackley, Mirelle Enos, and Joshua Leonard
Running Time: 1 Hour and 46 Minutes

This much anticipated story is about seventeen year old Mia Hall (Chloe Grace Moretz), who is a prodigy on the cello. It is based on the popular teenage novel, of the same name. She is a very beautiful, dedicated and intelligent young lady whose lifelong dream is to attend Julliard.
Things become a little convoluted when she meets Adam (Jaime Blackley) a fellow student at her high school who asks her out on her first date.
He continues to pursue her and she continues to resist. She is totally devoted to her love of playing the cello. She finally caves in and accepts a date with young Adam. He is a lead singer for a small local rock band and she feels that they have nothing in common. She feels completely out of her element when she goes to watch him perform.
Her father Denny (Joshua Leonard) was a former musician who played in a rock band and her mother Kat (Mirelle Enos) is a free spirit with the attitude that anything goes. Her mother continually encourages her to date Adam.
Things take a terrible turn when the family gets into a catastrophic car wreck and some of them are fatally injured.
Mia is immediately unconscious and the movie takes place from her point of view while she is in a coma.
She is in a place between life and death and finds herself alone and unable to communicate with anyone to let them know she is still around. Faced with the mind-boggling dilemma of, should I stay or should I go?
The story is so mixed up, it jumps from before the coma to while she is in the coma.
I  found this movie to be so discombobulated and all over the place that I did not enjoy it.
 Her parents, especially her mother condoning and encouraging her to go and get romantically involved with Adam, both emotionally and physically. It was a relationship that was totally uncharacteristic for Mia's own personal behavior.
Parents be advised: I am recommending this movie for children ages 13 and over. The car wreck and the early age sexual relationship are too intense and too suggestive for young children. I feel the sexual relationship scenes are even too much for high school aged young adults. There is also some mild profanity.
I am giving "If I Stay" two bags of popcorn.