The Next Gay love story is bringing a handful of people to the theaters this weekend at the box office as it brought in roughly 11.5 million ranking number 5 for its opening weekend.
20th Century Fox’s Love, Simon stars Nick Robinson in his third consecutive teen romance film, this time as he is playing a character with a huge secret. In this day when the world is becoming much more acceptable of the LGBTQ, it still brings light to the fact that these people are the only ones that have to come out about their identity. All in all, Simon does a good job of trying to conceal his feelings, that is until he falls in love with a mysterious “Blue” online.
Throughout the movie, the love grows making Simon brave enough to come out to his family finally by encouraging Blue to do the same, but will it be enough to make them realize that they can be together outside the email messages and not worry about what others will say.
The film also stars, Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner, who play Simon’s liberal parents who must confront the truth and be okay with it.
At an hour and 50 minutes, Love Simon will have you wrapped around the story and rooting for love in a new way that is becoming more the norm as the lgbtq community is accepted by the freestyle world.
Love Simon is currently out in theaters.