Overview
Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
It took me a little bit to get into this film. I knew that the supremely-talented Alice Wu wrote this movie and I could hear her saying the lines through the lead. Of course, the lead is in high school and – as with so many other films set with characters of that age – it doesn’t feel authentic. Anyway, putting that aside this is really a marvelous movie. It feels like a lot of other movies that came before it because of the various themes but it managed to bring them all together that made the sum much different than the parts. In a weird kind of way seeing the three leads playing off of each other reminded me of “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”. The last ten minutes are magnificent and the film ends in a way that avoids clichés and fits the stories.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews The Half of It
Movie title: The Half of It
Movie description: Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
Date published: 2021-01-22
Director(s): Alice Wu
Actor(s): Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Enrique Murciano, Wolfgang Novogratz, Catherine Curtin, Becky Ann Baker, Collin Chou, MacIntyre Dixon, Alec Tincher, Bonnie Flannery, Tyler Crozier, Spencer Wawak, Patrick T. Johnson, Gabi Samels, Haley Murphy, Patrick Noonan, Dean Tierney, Cronin Cullen, Kathryn Ainsley Grant, Billy Thomas Myott, Matt Meinsen, Joe Lanza, Emma Diner, Alexandre Bagot, Logan Riley Bruner, Abigail Donaghy, Lucas Kane, Joan Jaffe
Genre: Comedy, Romance
My Review
It took me a little bit to get into this film. I knew that the supremely-talented Alice Wu wrote this movie and I could hear her saying the lines through the lead. Of course, the lead is in high school and – as with so many other films set with characters of that age – it doesn’t feel authentic. Anyway, putting that aside this is really a marvelous movie. It feels like a lot of other movies that came before it because of the various themes but it managed to bring them all together that made the sum much different than the parts. In a weird kind of way seeing the three leads playing off of each other reminded me of “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”. The last ten minutes are magnificent and the film ends in a way that avoids clichés and fits the stories.
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My Review - 8/10
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