Oriah “Ry” Pera (Maia Reficco) was diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis as a child. She takes medication to help with the seizures, but has noticed how numb it makes her feel in her day to day life. Now she is traveling alongside her mother Isolde (Eva Longoria) to Mallorca for a business trip and all she wants is some sort of normalcy. Enter Julian Garcia (Fernando Lindez). Julian is a local who works for his family’s fishing company. He’s everything that Ry is not and when sparks fly, the summer will end up changing her life forever.

Based on the novel by Anna Todd, I am actually surprised that I never got around to reading this before it’s release. After all, she was the mastermind behind the After series. Still I wasn’t expecting much going into it because it sounded like everything we’ve seen before with these young adult book to film adaptions. I put it on thinking it would serve as decent background noise while I was dealing with a migraine and cramps, but it ended up making me feel all the feels!

This is a romance and at the centre of the film is the relationship between Ry and Julian. Whilst they initially butt heads, they develop a genuine friendship and that turns into something more. Reficco and Lindez had a fiery chemistry with one another. From the very first moment they met on that nude beach to Ry singing No Scrubs to him at the bar and him showing her what he does at his job, I fell for them more and more. Some of their scenes really gave me butterflies and I hadn’t felt that since Tessa and Hardin.

I do wish there had been more development between Ry and Isolde. For mother and daughter, they seemed very surface level which may have been the point, but I would have still appreciated something more there. They could have decided to show us more of Isolde’s past in Mallorca and what brought her back to the island in a flashback. I did love the friendship between Ry and Amara (Chloe Sweetlove). It may have started off rushed, but it managed to steady and you could tell the two girls really cared for one another.

Another central part of the film focuses on Ry’s health. I’m not too familiar with epilepsy and all that goes along with it, but I do think they depicted the topic well. I read that Todd took experiences from her personal life and put them into the story so I appreciated the delicacy in which it was handled. I want to give Reficco props for her portrayal during those particular scenes. I think she performed them like a champ.

Prime have done it again! They have been on a roll with page to screen adaptions and this one is no exception. The Last Sunrise wasn’t perfect, but it more than set out with it’s intention of making me feel all weepy and quite frankly that is exactly what I was after.

Rating: ♥️♥️♥️.5