DEAR EVAN HANSEN
Social outcast: Ben Platt as Evan (right) with Colton Ryan as Connor.
Top to bottom: Evan with Alana (Amandla Stenberg);
Amy
Adams
and
Danny
Pino.
Julianne
Moore
as
Evan’s
mum;
★★★
DIRECTOR Stephen Chbosky
OUT 22 OCTOBER CERT TBC / 137 MINS
CAST Ben Platt, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Julianne Moore, Amy Adams
PLOT Socially anxious high-schooler Evan Hansen (Platt) is charged by his therapist to write encouraging letters to himself. When one of these is mistaken for a suicide note from the depressed Connor Murphy (Ryan), Evan fabricates an entire friendship to help Connor’s grief-stricken parents.