The Half of It (2020)

It's a teen take on Cyrano, with a boy wooing a girl with the help of another girl's words. And wow. I did not expect there to be such depths in what I assumed was a teen rom-com.

The "pretty girl" being pursued at one point said something like "when you're pretty... people want to make you like them. Not like you as in 'I like you,' but like them as in 'I am like you.'" How profound and true that was. The same character, in response to being told that another doesn't believe in God, said, "that must be so nice," which is also so very real and true.

Anyway, this is a film I would happily recommend to adults and teens alike. It's smart and sweet and deep and doesn't falsely wrap things up all nice and neat.

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