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Paper Towns

Paper Towns

Get Lost. Get Found.

20156.21h 49m

Overview

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are clues, and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Quentin gets, the less he sees of the girl he thought he knew.

Directed by Jake Schreier
Written by Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, John Green
Produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey
Box OfficeBudget: $12.0MRevenue: $85.5M

Top Cast

Nat Wolff

Nat Wolff

Quentin

Cara Delevingne

Cara Delevingne

Margo

Austin Abrams

Austin Abrams

Ben

Justice Smith

Justice Smith

Radar

Halston Sage

Halston Sage

Lacey

Jaz Sinclair

Jaz Sinclair

Angela

Cara Buono

Cara Buono

Mrs. Jacobsen

J

Josiah Cerio

Young Quentin

Hannah Riley

Hannah Riley

Young Margo

Meg Crosbie

Meg Crosbie

Ruthie

Themes & Keywords

high schoolfloridafriendshipbased on novel or bookaffectationclassmatecandidorlando floridaphilosophicalbased on young adult novelpatheticdramaticadmiringadoringamusedempatheticenchantfamiliar

About Paper Towns

Paper Towns is a mystery, drama, romance film released in 2015 exploring themes of high school, florida, friendship, based on novel or book, affectation, classmate. Directed by Jake Schreier, it stars Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams. Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are clues, and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Quentin gets, the less he sees of the girl he thought he knew.

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