Movie Review: The Half of It (2020) on Netflix 👍
The Half of It is a witty romance story with a lot of heart and plenty of drama involving high schoolers trying to figure out the messy art of love. (See the movie trailer below.)
In it, Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) is a loner expatriate from China who helps her disenfranchised single father pay the bills by writing class assignments for other students. Along comes tongue-tied footballer Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer), who wants Ellie to help him write love notes to popular art student Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire). If you think this sounds a lot like Cyrano de Bergerac, you're right, except that it's been modernized and set in flyover America.
There are all kinds of complications in the story. Ellie doesn't want to write love letters initially but Ellie's electrical power is about to be shut off and Paul offers to pay substantially more. Paul becomes impatient with making progress and wants to move ahead with Aster. Aster is dating with the football team's quarterback who is sure they will be married one day and her father is pretty happy about the pairing. And no one knows that Ellie and Aster are secretly in love with each other, complicating everyone else's relationships.
This story occurring in flyover country, where no one knows much about the world at large, makes the obvious that much less obvious. And it all makes this a cute, adorable yet painful story about youth in unattainable love.
The Half of It move trailer through YouTube available here:
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