Taglines: He’s Done Keeping His Story Straight.
Simon Spier, a high school senior, leads and has led what he considers a perfectly normal perfect life. He has a loving family in his parents Emily and Jack Spier, and his younger sister Nora Spier. He has a close group of friends in Leah, Nick and Abby, the former two who he’s known almost all his life, and the latter who just transferred to their school, Creekwood High, this year, but who they feel like they’ve known just as long. But there is a “but” in his life, the big secret that he’s been keeping now for a few years: he’s gay and in the closet to everyone.
He knows especially his parents would be all right with his homosexual orientation, despite Jack’s often politically incorrect jokes, and that most of the students accept Ethan, their one and only openly gay classmate, but Simon has failed to come out for various reasons, mostly having to do with the change that would occur in what he has known as his life. He discovers that he is not alone in another classmate calling himself “Blue” (a pseudonym) posting online his own struggles in being gay and in the closet.
With that posting having an email address where one can respond, Simon begins an anonymous correspondence with Blue opening up about his own struggles. In the support they end up providing each other, Simon begins to fall for Blue not even knowing who he is. As Simon tries to figure out who Blue is, he starts to see his classmates in a new light. But circumstances lead to Simon manipulating his friends’ love lives all in an effort to maintain his secret.
Directed by Greg Berlanti (Riverdale, The Flash, Supergirl), written by Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger (This is Us), and based on Becky Albertalli’s acclaimed novel, Love, Simon is a funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about the thrilling ride of finding yourself and falling in love.
Love, Simon is a 2018 American teen comedy-drama directed by Greg Berlanti and based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. The film stars Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Miles Heizer, Keiynan Lonsdale, Logan Miller, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel and Tony Hale. Robinson stars as Simon, 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.
Principal photography began on March 6, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. Jennifer Garner was spotted shooting her scenes on March 21, 2017. Filming officially ended on April 23, 2017. The soundtrack of the film will include music by Bleachers, Troye Sivan, Amy Shark, Brenton Wood, The 1975, Normani Kordei and Khalid among others. The first track released from the soundtrack was “Alfie’s Song (Not So Typical Love Song)” by Bleachers.
Love, Simon (2018)
Directed by: Greg Berlanti
Starring: Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Jennifer Garner, Alexandra Shipp, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Miles Heizer, Keiynan Lonsdale, Logan Miller, Josh Duhamel, Tony Hale, Darcy Rose Byrnes
Screenplay by: Elizabeth Berger, Isaac Aptaker
Production Design by: Aaron Osborne
Cinematography by: John Guleserian
Film Editing by: Harry Jierjian
Costume Design by: Eric Daman
Music by: Rob Simonsen
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual references, language and teen partying.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: March 16, 2018
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