A teenager (Black-Ish's Yara Shahidi) finds love at a tough time in her family's life in this drama based on...
A teenager (Black-Ish's Yara Shahidi) finds love at a tough time in her family's life in this drama based on Nicola Yoon's young adult novel.
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae (Charles Melton, The Thinning: New World Order) and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley (Shahidi) fall for each other just a day before her family’s deportation from the States.
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52 %105 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
60 %894 reviewsAudience score rating
"I believed in Natasha and Daniel; I believed in the implausibility of their day. And I believed in the movie's mission, however overpronounced."
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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair"They are so appealing - I mean, his last name is Bae, and she never makes a joke about it - that you will totally believe that he is a budding poet and that her thing is astronomy."
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The New York Times
The New York Times""Sun" unapologetically embraces deep-dish romantic fantasy and unashamedly exults in the most shameless coincidences imaginable. If that sounds noticeably lacking in irony, sarcasm and snark, it's just going to have to be that way."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Even by generic standards, The Sun Is Also a Star is simply misbegotten."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"The sparks are few in this laboured romance."
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Associated Press
Associated PressThe Sun Is Also a Star | Details
- Rating
- 12A, Infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, violence
- Runtime
- 100
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- USA
