A teenage boy falls in love with a troubled girl who transfers to his high school.A teenage boy falls in love with a troubled girl who transfers to his high school.A teenage boy falls in love with a troubled girl who transfers to his high school.
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C.J. Hoff
- Mark 'Muz' Patterson
- (as CJ Hoff)
J.J. Pyle
- Mabel Town
- (as JJ Pyle)
Jasmine Hope Bloch
- High School Student
- (uncredited)
Anzi DeBenedetto
- Elks
- (uncredited)
Maxmillian Robinson
- High School Party Guest
- (uncredited)
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Summary
Reviewers say 'Chemical Hearts' delves into teenage love, loss, and mental health, often likened to John Green's style. Lili Reinhart's performance and the lead chemistry receive praise. However, the film faces criticism for its slow pace, clichés, and pretentiousness. Some argue it romanticizes mental health issues rather than addressing them realistically. Deviations from the book's plot and character development disappoint fans. The ending elicits mixed reactions, contributing to the film's divisive reception.
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Lost my words...
A deep embodiment of what it is to forget who you used to be. Dealing with the unknown, people tend to forget who they were or who they wanted to be. Watch this movie through the eyes of your old teen self. As someone that needs to learn more of what no one, but life itself, can teach us. Give it a chance.
A deep embodiment of what it is to forget who you used to be. Dealing with the unknown, people tend to forget who they were or who they wanted to be. Watch this movie through the eyes of your old teen self. As someone that needs to learn more of what no one, but life itself, can teach us. Give it a chance.
So last day it was about Chemical Hearts! Strong acting and melancholic drama that portrays the other side of love. It makes our heart thuds and wet.though it doesn't show any death scene but post death emotions and great acting skills delivers all the pain with an uncompromised level. Once again Lili. Austin was subtle but it so realistic about how he is so affectionate to a person who doesn't love him back, how he couldn't find words when he wants to express him and he is ready to offer his soul to the already broken girl and he gets rejected and it breaks his heart! There comes some words about other teenage problems though. It doesn't describe anything other than pain and love. But surely explain the Confused Limbo stage of teens. But as they break up, Austin is finally entering to adulthood and his view change as the film says adults are just scarred teenager who tried to escape the limbo stage! But when it comes to LOVE all adults are just teenagers, doesn't it?
6/10 - promising young adult novel adaptation explores lots of worthy themes but never manages to truly lift off the ground
This is a really good movie, better than I expected. I like Lili Reinhart, having watched her as Betty in "Riverdale", she also was a producer for this new-release movie on Amazon streaming. Set and filmed in New Jersey, she is high school senior Grace Town, new to this school, with a limp and a cane.
Austin Abrams is Henry Page, also a senior and newly appointed school newspaper editor. Grace and Henry become friends and then more, but Grace always seems distant, something is bothering her, she doesn't speak about it easily. It is wrapped up in the bad wreck about a year earlier that killed her friend and cut her track career short.
The title is a reference to several things, one a comment made early while looking at the night sky, that we are just molecules, chemicals, made from exploded star remnants. Another is what Henry's doctor sister says about chemical changes in the minds of teenagers, as they start to leave behind childhood and cope with what it means to be a young adult. Teenagers develop Chemical Hearts.
The movie doesn't have a wrapped up, happily ever after ending but it does have Henry and Grace each headed in perhaps better directions, preparing for young adulthood. My wife and I watched it at home on Amazon streaming.
Austin Abrams is Henry Page, also a senior and newly appointed school newspaper editor. Grace and Henry become friends and then more, but Grace always seems distant, something is bothering her, she doesn't speak about it easily. It is wrapped up in the bad wreck about a year earlier that killed her friend and cut her track career short.
The title is a reference to several things, one a comment made early while looking at the night sky, that we are just molecules, chemicals, made from exploded star remnants. Another is what Henry's doctor sister says about chemical changes in the minds of teenagers, as they start to leave behind childhood and cope with what it means to be a young adult. Teenagers develop Chemical Hearts.
The movie doesn't have a wrapped up, happily ever after ending but it does have Henry and Grace each headed in perhaps better directions, preparing for young adulthood. My wife and I watched it at home on Amazon streaming.
A teen drama movie based on a book.
How can we get over that love that hurt us? In this movie you won't know.
It is about a boy who meets a girl and falls in love with her, while discovering his past.
Parsimonious.
Quality.
She talks about how sometimes we cannot forget the damage we have done or the damage they did to us, although she succeeds in doing it, she does not show how to overcome it, she becomes more and more stuck in her central idea.
It is not your typical teenage story.
At times it may seem silly and toxic, the message it tries is good but the situations and how to get there are not.
Avoidable.
It's like a sleeping pill in the middle of the movie, it has a good opening and a little closing, but it falls off in the middle.
She tries to look smart and is only ostentatious because she can't.
The book may try something else but the film does not and stays in the attempt.
Did you know
- TriviaSome of the pictures of Lili Reinhart (Grace) when Henry (Austin Abrams) is looking her up include Camila Mendes, her costar in Riverdale.
- Quotes
Grace Town: The world tells you to express yourself, but the minute that you do it tells you to shut up.
- ConnectionsReferenced in MsMojo: Top 10 Most Anticipated Romance Movies of 2020 (2019)
- SoundtracksTake Care
Written by Victoria Legrand & Alex Scally (as Alex Kristian Scally)
Performed by Beach House
Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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