![]() For fans of All the Bright Places, The Spectacular Now, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, this movie will not disappoint and is sure to be one of the best tear-jerkers to hit the small screen in some time. While I enjoyed the movie and thought it was very well-written and authentic, it’s a bit of an acquired taste, in my opinion. ![]() This book-based drama has its funny moments, but it focuses on the inevitable pain of love and loss rather than prom and other more typical teen movie subjects. For those in search of a light-hearted, Kissing Booth- esque film, I recommend you look elsewhere. Both touching and devastatingly honest, Chemical Hearts tells a story that is all too real, a bit painful, and ultimately hopeful.Ĭhemical Hearts certainly won’t be for everyone. As the two form a friendship, and possibly more, Henry and Grace learn what it means to love deeply, accept a person for who they are, and experience the beauty that remains amidst the pain of the world. But as he falls in love with the new girl, he begins to unravel dark secrets about Grace, getting to see the beauty beyond her facade but also the lingering pain from her past. After Grace joins the newspaper as a co-editor with Henry, he knows he needs to understand the mysterious girl who wears oversized clothes and uses a cane. Starring Riverdale actress Lili Reinhart and Paper Town’s Austin Abrams, Chemical Hearts diverges from the mundane and delves in the more complex components of love, both the joyful and the heart-breaking. ![]() Reinhart, also an executive producer here, filmed the movie over three weeks last year in New Jersey before going off to shoot Season 4 of “Riverdale.” She enjoyed her time working with Abrams, a longtime friend, and playing Grace, even if it was brief.Based on the best-selling young adult novel by Krystal Sutherland, Chemical Hearts tells a love story that tackles mental illness, high school romance, and the pain of loss and grief. She wanted to be but she wasn’t and it really pained Henry to have to give that up because she wasn’t ready.” And if you have feelings for someone and maybe it’s unrequited and you desperately want them to be with you, you shouldn’t have to convince someone to love you. “And I think it’s easy to be selfish when it comes to love. “I think one of the messages of the story to me … was you cannot force someone’s hand into loving you if they’re not ready,” the actress says. Reinhart says she was attracted to the story because of its depiction of young love that didn’t feel sugar-coated. The story is based on the novel “Our Chemical Hearts” by Krystal Sullivan and the title refers to the chemical reactions in the brain that result from love. As their friendship turns to love, she realizes she may not be ready for what he has to offer. ![]() ![]() He’s immediately smitten with her and wants to help her through her grief, a little too quickly in her opinion. Henry is a bright, sensitive kid from a good home who likes to fix things, and in Grace he sees, perhaps subconsciously, his next project. Into her life comes Henry Page (Austin Abrams, “Paper Towns,” “Brad’s Status”), with whom she is partnered as editors of their school paper. And her home life is, to say the least, rather unusual. Now sullen and withdrawn, the once-popular athlete is content to push away the outside world and wallow in despair. 21, she’s a New Jersey high-school senior left with a badly injured knee and psyche by a car accident that claimed the life of her boyfriend. Grace Town is a broken young woman - emotionally and physically.Īs played by Lili Reinhart (“Riverdale,” “Hustlers”) in the Amazon romance/drama movie “Chemical Hearts,” premiering Friday, Aug. ![]()
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