The teenage coming-of-age/discovering yourself/love story genre is overflowing with entries, but few of them deal with what it’s like being gay in high school. That changes with “Love, Simon” which takes on the big subject of accepting and owning your sexuality, all within the familiar teen movie tropes.
Directed by Greg Berlanti, who knows this territory well as the hit TV producer behind tweenage fare like “Riverdale,” “The Flash,” and “Supergirl,” the movie is based on the book by Becky Albertalli, and follows Simon, a closeted teenager who starts falling for anonymous classmate online. Here’s the official synopsis:
Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing.
Starring Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Miles Heizer, Keiynan Lonsdale, Logan Miller, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, and Tony Hale, “Love, Simon” opens on March 16th. Check out the trailer along with the first single from the movie, “Alfie’s Song (Not So Typical Love Song)” by Bleachers.