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I don't remember a lot of the book, as I've read that a long, long time ago. I've read it three times, actually. And every time, I cried. So did I during this movie. Multiple times. I had to pause the movie to calm down, but maybe I'm just a bit of a 'cry baby' when it comes to movies.

The movie started out great. The strong, 11/12 year old 'Akkie' is a fierce girl, willing to fight for what she wants. She's pretty popular, and only has one 'enemy'; Joep.

When she gets in a fight with Joep and she gets a nosebleed after it had stopped already, they take some blood from her. She is diagnosed with Leukemia.

She gets a nice doctor. 'Doctor Mustache'. He's a great person. Akkie is destined to become better. She has a strong will to live. She wants to play in the soccer tournament and represent her school. Things get better and she goes to school again. Only half days.

After a while, things worsen. She makes Doctor Mustache PROMISE to cure her... And if he doesn't, he'd have to shave off his mustache. This and that happens, and she's back in the hospital again. That's when Doctor Mustache walks into the room. Akkie stares at him for a while, before saying: "Hello Doctor Mustache... Without a mustache..." (this is where I started crying SO bad.)

You now know she is not going to make it, and that just breaks your heart. It's just a movie, I know, but thinking about an eleven/twelve year old girl with Leukemia, who will never know about all the great things that are in the future of all the other kids... It just breaks me.

The soccer tournament will take place at a small patch of grass from the hospital, so Akkie can watch, through a window. After her team has won, she is smiling. Then, her smile fades slowly and her eyes close.

Seeing Joep cry was also something that really got to me. The boy that bullied her so much, said 'girls can't play soccer' and even made fun of her when she got out of the hospital for a while and was bald... Cried...

This movie, I gave a ten. Why? Because it's a family movie, but without the happy ending. Without the "and she got better and they all lived happily ever after." They made a movie about the real deal. About how bad it can get. About how even the strong will to live is not enough sometimes. It's about someone who will never know what it's like to graduate high school, get married, have kids. It's breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful, how even enemies are your friends when you're at such a low point in life. It may seem like pity, that they 'suddenly care for you.' But who really cares? At least they ARE there for you. It shows how even the people we think have no feelings at all, can be the most heartbroken of all of them.

I love this movie, I love the book and I will never forget about it.

When I was young I read the book "Achtste groepers huilen niet" I cried my way trough the second half of the book. In late 2012 I noticed they made a movie about it, I was very curious to see if they could turn such a sad story into a good movie. I was astonished. One of the best Dutch books I have ever read became my favorite Dutch movie.

Normally i'm not a big fan of Dutch movies, most contain bad acting and a poor storyline, of course with exceptions (Zwartboek and Oorlogswinter).

This movie is outstanding. Casting was done properly, looking at the characters in the book. The movie centers around Akkie, a fierce girl, a fighter. After being diagnosed with leukemia the quest for health starts.

Akkie fights and fights but the leukemia becomes more severe. This is when she makes her doctor, who she refers to as doctor mustache, promise he will make her better. She makes him swear on his mustache.

When later in the movie the doctor walks into the room with a clean-shaved face I couldn't stop crying for pretty much the remainder of the movie.

What makes this movie great is the fact that this is a very realistic story. This happens all the time around the world, and is such a sad fate for the people who suffer from leukemia and other fatal diseases like this.

This is for me, without doubt the best Dutch movie so far.

Cool kids don't cry , actually even men will cry if they watch the movie !

This radical Dutch-language film shows how quickly a life can change when a serious illness such as Leukemia is diagnosed.

Despite the fact that one always remains courageous, the film is a lesson about leukemia. The film is intended for young people and through this film young people are introduced to information such as chemotherapy, being ill and eventually even dying.

These are difficult themes that young people hardly encounter in daily life. By providing this information in an amusing way, young people can better empathize with a situation with which they are confronted with serious diseases such as leukemia.

It is impossible not to crying after watch this movie, i mean yeah you know as a teenager it would filled your heart with butterfly at the beggining, but then onion will fly right into your eyes at the end. I love this movie. Not gonna lieeeeeee.