Spoilers ahead. There’s a moment in every Sick Teen (or young person) Movie when you know everything is not as it seems: a fragment of dialogue, a sidelong glance, or a fraught moment that indicates impending doom — that one of the two main love interests is not going to make it to the end of the movie. In 2002’s A Walk to Remember, it’s when Mandy Moore’s character Jamie boldly makes popular bad boy Landon (Shane West) promise to never fall in love with her. In 2014’s The Fault in Our Stars, it’s when Augustus (Ansel Elgort), at that point in remission from cancer, uses his Make-A-Wish wish to take girlfriend Hazel to Amsterdam to meet her dream author. More recently in 2025’s My Oxford Year, it’s the moment when professor Jamie (Corey Mylchreest) inexplicably pulls away from Anna (Sofia Carson) after their first night together.

