Love, Simon

Director: Greg Berlanti

2018, US, 110, PG-13

Screenwriter: Greg Berlanti, based on Becky Albertalli’s novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.

Cast: Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Garner, Tony Hale.

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File under it’s about time: Love, Simon is the first studio-made romantic comedy with a main character who is a teenaged boy trying to bust his way out of the closet. Not only that, it’s a fun and refreshing first that breezily takes for granted that we’re rooting for Simon (played by Nick Robinson) to find love, even as it reminds us that high school is never an easy place to be different. In fact, Simon   faces a dilemma when his online-only romance with ‘Blue’ is uncovered by a clownish bully, who tries to blackmail Simon into setting him up with Abby (Alexandra Shipp) – who just happens to be the major crush of Simon’s best friend Nick (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.). “Greg Berlanti’s groundbreaking gay romcom is an exuberant gift, a John Hughes movie for audiences who just got woke.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone.