Review Love, Simon (2018)

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Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends, and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.





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Love, Simon
Director: Greg Berlanti (“The Broken Hearts Club,” “Life as We Know It”)
Cast: Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Josh Duhamel, Keiynan Lonsdale
Details: Known mostly for producing much of The CW’s programming these days including all of its DC shows, “Riverdale” and other network series, producer Greg Berlanti returns to a genre that his first film, the Timothy Olyphant-led gay rom-com “The Broken Hearts Club,” tackled. While that explored being gay in your thirties and forties, this deals with the first flushes of finding out one’s sexual orientation.

One big advantage here is that he has Becky Albertalli’s well-regarded novel “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda” as its source material for this story of a 17-year-old closeted gay high school student forced to balance his friends, his family, his email pen pal Blue, and the boy threatening to reveal his true sexuality to the whole school. Expect a sweet if simple tale of young love which boasts one bit of groundbreaking – giving us a major studio feature with a gay teen male lead. That’s a first.
 
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