THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE
New love helps a grieving girl find her way back to music.
Should You Watch It?
This is a thoughtful romantic drama about grief, new love, family, and the return of a young musician’s passion. It has entertaining, inspiring, and touching moments, especially as Lennie begins to emerge from the overwhelming sorrow caused by her sister’s death.
But the film’s emotional intensity can be difficult to watch. Lennie and Toby’s grief is sometimes over the top, and their motivations and transformations do not always feel convincing. The movie also includes strong romantic elements, many kinds of foul language, a lewd joke in one short sequence, and references to smoking marijuana.
The Christian worldview offers some light and positive elements but remains too limited. Adults who can thoughtfully weigh those concerns may find merit here. For families, however, this is not a suitable choice for children or young teens.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESSeventeen-year-old Lennie Walker is grieving the sudden death of her older sister, Bailey. Once a talented musician with dreams of attending Juilliard, Lennie has withdrawn from music and from much of life.
Her grandmother worries that Lennie has become too focused on her sister’s death. Then Lennie meets Joe Fontaine, a new student in her high school orchestra. As romance begins to draw Lennie back toward music, her complicated connection with Bailey’s grieving former boyfriend, Toby, creates a painful emotional conflict.
Is It Any Good?
Three stars means this film has genuine strengths but does not always make its unusual choices work. THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE offers entertaining, inspiring, and touching moments, and Lennie’s return to music can be moving.
The film’s quirky magical-realism sequences do not always succeed. Character motivations and transformations can feel unconvincing, while Lennie’s overwhelming grief sometimes makes her a difficult character to watch. At other points, however, her sorrow is genuinely moving.
The Worldview
THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE presents a light Christian worldview with a light Catholic context. Lennie is fascinated by Catholic saints, and she tells Toby that he reminds her of St. Francis of Assisi. The film also resolves a major plot problem through “signs” directed from Heaven.
Those elements offer a spiritual framework, but the Christian worldview is too light. The story is more focused on grief, romance, family relationships, and finding a way back to music than on a clear understanding of God, suffering, or redemption. Its romantic elements also complicate the film’s moral perspective.
At its center, the movie recognizes the deep pain of losing someone you love and the possibility of beginning to live again. Scripture offers this comfort: “The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34:18).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Light Christian worldview with a light Catholic context, light talk about saints and the plot problem is solved by “signs” in the world directed from Heaven that [SPOILER] lead the male love interest back to the story’s female protagonist, mitigated by some strong Romantic elements and female lead’s strong emotional reaction to her sister’s death, which her grandmother thinks has become too obsessive and causes her concern but also leads to conflict between them
Foul Language
Six obscenities, two profanities involving Jesus and Christ, 14 light profanities, and one teenage girl texts “WTF” to another teenage girl
Violence
Light violence occurs such as teenage girl collapses in classroom and dies of a heart condition, it is later revealed that her mother died of a similar condition, surviving sister is show visiting her sister’s open coffin in one scene
Sex
References to male erection are treated partially as a joke in one short sequence, lead female’s older sister confides to younger sister that she and her boyfriend had intercourse and planned to get married but the older sister dies a natural death, [SPOILER] later it’s revealed the dead sister was pregnant, a reference to sperm donations, and dead sister’s grieving boyfriend and grieving sister kiss several times even though the female protagonist has a crush on another boy from her high school
Nudity
No nudity
Alcohol Use
No alcohol use
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No tobacco smoking but female protagonist’s uncle smokes marijuana in one scene, and his grieving niece berates him for smoking too much marijuana in another scene;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Family dysfunction.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Lennie’s grief makes it difficult for her to return to ordinary life. How can sorrow be honestly faced without allowing it to consume us?
Psalm 34:18 · 2 Corinthians 1:3–4Lennie’s grandmother worries that her grief has become too obsessive. How can family members speak truthfully and compassionately to someone who is suffering?
Galatians 6:2 · Ephesians 4:15The film uses signs directed from Heaven to resolve a problem. How should Christians test spiritual claims and seek God’s guidance?
1 John 4:1 · James 1:5Lennie loses interest in music before gradually returning to it. What gifts or relationships might help someone begin healing after loss?
Romans 12:6–8 · Ecclesiastes 3:1–4The Final Word
THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE has real emotional strengths and some moving insights about grief, love, family, and music. Its romantic content, language, drug references, and limited Christian worldview make it a choice for discerning adults only. For them, the answer is WORTH THE TRIP — ADULTS ONLY. For family viewing, choose something else.
