If I Stay Review

On a school snow day, introspective cello prodigy Mia (Chloë Grace Moretz) is hurled from a car in a full-on collision. R. J. Cutler’s adaptation of Gayle Forman’s youth novel cross cuts between an out-of-body Mia watching her loved ones unravel over her comatose body with the backstory of her relationship with rocker Adam (Jamie Blackley). There’s something nice about teens talking real stuff — love of music, family — rather than vampires or Tributes. But even by YA standards this rings plastic, and the usually stellar Moretz feels like she is in an E4 drama.