Restless Trailer: When the Funeral Crasher Met the Doomed Chick

"Wait a second," you say. "Wasn't that movie called Harold and Maude?" Well, yes, but now it's been adapted and finessed and sweetened by Gus Van Sant, producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, writer Jason Lew and the Sony establishment as Restless. Click through at your own risk: You'll twee your pants.

You might remember Restless as a category-five hurricane of Hollywood development nepotism initiated by Bryce Dallas Howard, who encouraged her NYU chum Lew to adapt his play to the screen. Enter her father and his Imagine chum Grazer, who roped in Dennis Hopper's son Henry to star with Mia Wasikowska. We broke down the story here earlier this year: "Essentially, Restless is the most emo love story to ever don black lipstick and listen to The Smiths. Protagonist Enoch Brae is a 17-year-old funeral crasher, drawn to attending strangers' memorials after losing both his parents. At one of them, he meets the beautiful, tomboyish Annabel Cotton, a 16-year-old with Six Months to Live. Love then blooms among the gravestones as 'the moon looks on knowingly and sympathetically,' writes Lew."

That's all pretty much true, minus the part about the black lipstick. From the playful chalk outlines of Hopper and Wasikowska's star-crossed, death-obsessed lovers to the memoriam meet-cutes and right down to her darling Farrowesque haircut, this thing's practically swooning off the screen. The pop song and the bright titles and sunny, Harris Savides-shot exteriors confirm you will be swept off your feet, but only until you're plunked headlong into a Wall of Emo Grief that will... not... budge. Bring your Kleenex. Oh, and someone get Bud Cort a cameo.

VERDICT: The kids are all right.

[via Moviefone]