seen on 23 April 2018
Greg Berlanti directs Nick Robinson as Simon Spier in a film based on Becky Albertalli's coming of age novel Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda. It's basically an American high-school rom-com with the interesting twist that Simon, the main character, is gay but has not yet told anyone in his family or in his circle of friends. He is, however, exchanging emails with the mysterious 'Blue', another gay student at the school in a similar position.
The emails become increasingly flirtatious, though each boy is comfortable with the anonymity (Simon has also chosen a nom de plume). Matters are complicated when Simon leaves his secret gmail account open on a library computer and Marty, another classmate, reads and photographs the correspondence. Soon Simon is being blackmailed to assist Marty to befriend Abby, one of his close friends.
