![]() Jennifer Garner plays Simon’s kind, intuitive mom in a role that I imagine is the adoptive mother from Juno many years later. It’s often where kids first come out, or where they might be exiled to and at least in my town, it’s where students and parents rallied together to take care of kids whose parents kicked them out. On an emotional level, there’s an unspoken reality that for many LGBTQ kids, the drama club is the only place where they feel safe. The Insecurewriter/actor double threat should get more opportunities to steal every scene she’s in.įurther reading: The Must See Movies of 2018 She has perhaps the most jokes out of any character in the script, and her performance adds to it by turning even the smallest gesture or line into more. Albright leading a rather doomed production of Cabaret. One of the best sources of comedy is Natasha Rothwell, who plays beleaguered drama teacher Ms. It mines Gen Z touchstones for comedy, but in a way that is still accessible for all of us Olds. Once it gets going though, Love, Simon is a laugh a minute, with the kind of lines we’ve come to expect from director Greg Berlanti’s other projects, like Dawson’s Creek, Everwood, and the superhero half of the CW lineup. It’s full of a sort of “let’s get going already!” sense of anticipation for the real story to begin. ![]() The first 20 minutes or so are spent on setting up Simon’s world, and it’s the only part of the film that drags. Simon tries desperately to keep his secret from everyone as he falls in love and tries to uncover Blue’s identity, imagining one student after another as his anonymous crush in the movie’s occasional fantasy sequences, which also allow the script to explore Simon’s possibilities of an unknown future out of the closet. The obnoxious student blackmails Simon into helping him date one of Simon’s best friends. Simon’s story really gets moving as he and Blue grow closer, only to find out that another student found the emails and knows that Simon is gay. Simon begins emailing Blue, his only gay friend – there’s another gay kid at school, Ethan, but he’s femme and flamboyant in a way that makes Simon uncomfortable. Complicating all of this is an anonymous post from “Blue,” another closeted guy at Simon’s school, on the school’s PostSecret/Whisper/Yik Yak-style site. But Simon is also counting down until he can go off to college and finally come out, away from his lifelong friends and close, loving family. Simon (Nick Robinson) and his friends are seniors, counting down the days until high school is over. With a modern soundtrack and a diverse cast, Love, Simon is the kind of movie many people wish they had growing up. Fundamentally about friendship, being yourself, and living the life you deserve, this rare, uplifting, “romantic AF” LGBTQ movie is to be prized. ![]() Love, Simon is a smart, funny, and endlessly charming teen comedy in the vein of Mean Girls and Easy A. ![]()
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