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Dear Evan Hansen is a 2021 American coming-of-age musical teen drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky from a screenplay by Steven Levenson. It is based on the 2015 stage musical of the same name by Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul. A Marc Platt production, the film stars his son, Ben, reprising his performance in the title role, which he originated on stage. The film's ensemble cast also includes Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, Danny Pino, Colton Ryan, and DeMarius Copes.

It had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2021 as its Opening Night Gala Presentation, to be followed by a theatrical release on September 24, 2021 by Universal Pictures.

Plot
Evan Hansen is an anxious, isolated high-school student who's aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social media age. He soon embarks on a journey of self-discovery when a letter he wrote for a writing exercise falls into the hands of a grieving couple whose son took his own life.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Rather poor casting choices of Ben Platt, to this point where he looks way too old to play a teenager, considering how he is age 27, which spawned controversy received more polarized-to-negative response. But Platt dismissed the response, comparing his age to those of actors who played high school students in the 1978 film Grease.
 * 2) *Although to be fair, this is ironic, considering how some adult actors who are at least 20 years old, portray as teens in several movies, such as Back to the Future.
 * 3) Bland cinematography.
 * 4) The de-ageing CGI for Ben Platt is super weak and uncanny.

Reception
Dear Evan Hansen received negative reviews from critics, who criticizing the direction, portrayal of mental illness, cinematography, tone, and screenplay, with others praising the performances of the supporting cast (particularly Dever and Stenberg), and the musical numbers. The casting of the 27-year-old Platt as a high school student divided response. According to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 34% of 90 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 5.1/10. The critics consensus reads: "Dear Evan Hansen does a fair job of capturing the emotion of its source material, but it's undermined by questionable casting and a story that's hard to swallow.". Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 40 out of 100 from 15 critics, indicating "mixed to average reviews."

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