Film: The Map That Leads To You
Cast: Madelyn Cline, K.J. Apa, Sofia Wylie, Madison Thompson, Orlando Norman, Josh Lucas, Karl-El Santos, Diego Ross
Director: Lasse Hallström
Rating: * * 1/2
Runtime: 96 min.

Lasse Hallström’s latest film, The Map That Leads to You, is a copiously affecting, but largely forgettable second-rate weepy.

This film, based on a novel by J.P. Monninger, has recent college grad and soon-to-be banker Heather (Madelyn Cline) and charming vagabond Jack (KJ Apa) embark on a whirlwind romance following their chance meeting on the midnight train to Barcelona. They apparently broke ice quite easily because they both were reading Ernest Hemingway’s Great American Novel The Sun Also Rises set in Spain.

Jack goes along with Heather and her girl gang, including Amy (Madison Thompson) and Connie (Sofia Wylie), experience some fun and some misadventures in Spain before they split up to go their own way.