Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

Directed by

Stephen Chbosky

Genre

drama film, musical film, teen film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 17m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 372 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school student with social anxiety fabricates a story to gain attention and connection after a classmate dies. The lie grows bigger and affects the people around him.

emotionalintrospectivemelancholicmusic-drivensincereteen-centricsombertheatrical

What happens

Dear Evan Hansen is a 2021 American coming-of-age musical film directed by Stephen Chbosky and written by Steven Levenson, based on the 2015 stage musical. Ben Platt plays Evan Hansen, reprising the performance he originated on stage. The cast also includes Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, Colton Ryan, Danny Pino, Julianne Moore, and Amy Adams. Dear Evan Hansen premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2021, and was released in the United States on September 24 by Universal Pictures. The film underperformed at the box office, grossing $19 million against a $27–28M budget, and received generally negative reviews from critics. Some of the criticism was aimed at the casting of 27-year-old Ben Platt as a high school student, which some attributed to nepotism, as his father Marc Platt was a producer on the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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