Ben Platt (Pitch Perfect) and Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart) star alongside Oscar-winner Julianne Moore and six-time nominee Amy Adams for this...
Ben Platt (Pitch Perfect) and Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart) star alongside Oscar-winner Julianne Moore and six-time nominee Amy Adams for this film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Directed by Stephen Chbosky (Perks of Being a Wallflower), the story follows a high schooler with social anxiety who unintentionally gets caught up in a lie when one of his letters is mistaken for a classmate's suicide note.
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29 %280 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
88 %1,118 reviewsAudience score rating
16+Age suitabilityChildren & Media rating
"The end result is painfully true to the spirit of the play."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"A ponderous movie that turns earnest into maudlin, lyrical into lugubrious."
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Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal"Dares to step out with sincerity into the age of snark."
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ABC
ABC"(A) hyper-engineered world of tragedy exploited and truth forsaken."
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly"Exquisitely engineered to give us all the feels."
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Time Magazine
Time Magazine"This musical is manipulative, and strange."
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times"The Tony-winning musical loses impact on the big screen."
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Boston Globe
Boston Globe"This film suffocates you with ersatz compassion and personal growth."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"(A) plodding, whimpering Broadway musical adaptation..."
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The Times
The Times"Baffling emoto-musical becomes exhausting all too quickly."
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The Irish Times
The Irish TimesDear Evan Hansen | Details
- Rating
- 12A, mental health theme, suicide references, sex and drug references, language
- Runtime
- 137
- Genre
- Drama, Musical
- Country of origin
- USA
