‘Chemical Hearts’ Director Says Teen Romance Isn’t a Typical YA Film

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Lili Reinhart is opening up about her new romantic drama “Chemical Hearts”, streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland. It follows a guy named Henry (Austin Abrams) as he meets, and falls in love with, the new girl in his school, Grace (Reinhart).

Director Richard Tanne was so moved after reading Krystal Sutherland's 2016 novel Chemical Hearts that he immediately began writing a script to adapt it. "I didn't know really anything about it, except that it moved me enough to finish it before we even had the rights," Tanne tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on Krystal Sutherland’s high school-set novel, Chemical Hearts is a multi-layered study of teen grief marred by ethical ambiguity. Austin Abrams (Euphoria, This Is Us), plays Henry, the blueprint of a male high school protagonist.

Did you know that teenagers have intense emotions? If this comes as news, you may be in the target demographic for this YA drama, with Lili Reinhart as a high-school senior who has suffered a traumatic loss and Austin Abrams as the love-struck guy who helps her come back from it. For anyone over 20, Chemical Hearts will land as a better-than-average version of an obvious story.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThe MPAA has long placed teen movies in a tricky bind: When they reflect the lives of their young target audience a little too relatably, they’re slapped with a rating that excludes the very demographic they’re about. It’s an irony that corners too many films in the genre into a safely sanitized PG-13 space, clean and cute and not entirely real.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorRichard Tanne’s drama “Chemical Hearts,” adapted from Krystal Sutherland’s 2016 novel “Our Chemical Hearts,” centers on a budding romance between Henry Page (played by Austin Abrams of “Euphoria”) and Grace Town (“Riverdale” star Lili Reinhart), who meet while working at the school newspaper. The movie, debuting Aug.

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