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A warm, accessible coming-of-age romcom that balances first-love nerves with the emotional weight of coming out. It’s a little polished and familiar, but it remains sincere, comforting, and genuinely moving for viewers who want a hopeful queer teen story.
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Fri · 1h 50m
Director: Greg Berlanti
Starring: Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
Greg Berlanti
Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel
A warm, accessible coming-of-age romcom that balances first-love nerves with the emotional weight of coming out. It’s a little polished and familiar, but it remains sincere, comforting, and genuinely moving for viewers who want a hopeful queer teen story.
Love, Simon is a crowd-pleasing teen romance that understands how big small moments can feel when you’re seventeen and hiding a core part of yourself. Its biggest strength is sincerity: the movie treats Simon’s fear, hope, and embarrassment with enough care that even the familiar beats land with real emotional force.
The film works best as a comfort watch. It’s polished, funny, and easy to root for, with a strong supporting cast and a sweet online-crush premise that gives the story a modern hook. It also captures the social texture of high school well enough to make Simon’s isolation feel immediate, even when the movie stays safely within studio-movie boundaries.
If you want something thornier or more formally adventurous, this may feel a bit neat. But as a mainstream queer coming-of-age story aimed at a wide audience, it does what it sets out to do very well: it offers recognition, reassurance, and a sincere romantic payoff.
mia lee vicino (3★) · 9606 likes
things love, simon got correct about gay culture: -iced coffee -musical theater -watching panic! at the disco videos on youtube in middle school incorrect about gay culture:-simon’s ability to drive
antonio (3★) · 9470 likes
simon falling in love with any boy who was even remotely nice to him is peak repressed gay representation.
cassie (5★) · 6673 likes
So here’s the thing: I’m bi. I’ve never said that out loud, never even typed it. I’m out to absolutely nobody. Except, I guess, anyone who’s reading this now. I don’t necessarily believe in fate, but I do believe that sometimes the universe places things in your life exactly when and where you need them. For me, perhaps one of the best examples of that is Love, Simon. A few things about me: I’m a senior in my final few… more
kai (4★) · 3832 likes
i just realized this must be how straight people feel when they watch romcoms
ciara (3.5★) · 3386 likes
simon’s friends were shitty as fuck god damn heterosexuals they expected me to forget how they just abandoned him when he got outed because they’re selfish bitches just because of how cute the ending was?? “oooOhh u told us a lie bc u were being fucking blackmailed so we two straights thought we couldn’t fuck each other ooooOh our lives r so hard” fuck off dumb straight bitches i’m fucking mad
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coming out, first love, teen identity, family acceptance, friendship, online romance, self-acceptance, high school social anxiety
LGBTQ+, coming-of-age, romantic comedy, teen drama, feel-good, identity, family dynamics, high school, internet romance, mainstream studio