ROSE TINTED Nell Barlow plays the smitten AJ in Sweetheart.
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grown up watching John Hughes films and a lot of the coming-of-age stuff,” says debut writer-director Marley Morrison. “The States do it really well. But I was like, ‘I love these films but why are they never queer? Why are they never with LGBT characters?’ I think that was something I always wanted to do, and yeah, it was semi-autobiographical.”