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  • 2020
  • R
  • Amazon Studios
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2020
  • R
  • Amazon Studios
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Seventeen-year-old Henry Page (Austin Abrams) has never been in love. He fancies himself a romantic, but the kind of once-in-a-lifetime love he’s been hoping for just hasn’t happened yet. Then, on the first day of senior year, he meets transfer student Grace Town (Lili Reinhart) and it seems all that is about to change. When Grace and He...

Directed By: Richard Tanne

Written By: Krystal Sutherland, Richard Tanne

  • 2020
  • R
  • Amazon Studios
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2020
  • R
  • Amazon Studios
  • 1 h 33 m
Chemical Hearts
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 16 Critic Reviews
57
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 75 User Ratings
8.1
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Summary Seventeen-year-old Henry Page (Austin Abrams) has never been in love. He fancies himself a romantic, but the kind of once-in-a-lifetime love he’s been hoping for just hasn’t happened yet. Then, on the first day of senior year, he meets transfer student Grace Town (Lili Reinhart) and it seems all that is about to change. When Grace and He...

Directed By: Richard Tanne

Written By: Krystal Sutherland, Richard Tanne

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 16 Critic Reviews
57
44% Positive
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56% Mixed
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 16 Critic Reviews
57
44% Positive
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56% Mixed
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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75
Sep 13, 2020
It isn’t pretty — it’s by turns confusing, exhilarating, depressing and deflating. But then again, so is high school.
By Asher Luberto FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 20, 2020
What makes Chemical Hearts so good is it’s unafraid of its feelings. It tackles complicated emotional issues such as depression, suicide, sex and love with a straightforward honesty. For once, a film about young people is completely free of snark and irony.
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Universal Acclaim Based on 75 User Ratings
8.1
75% Positive
56 Ratings
13% Mixed
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Universal Acclaim Based on 75 User Ratings
8.1
75% Positive
56 Ratings
13% Mixed
10 Ratings
12% Negative
9 Ratings

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10
Akhil543
Apr 28, 2021
This movie is awesome it takes into very good love and it is one of the best movie I've watched
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10
AliceFoxA
Nov 18, 2020
loved the way the story is built. It is an incredible romance film, with a deep plot. I found it totally promising. Reinhart’s acting was perfect. The actors portrayed their characters perfectly.
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67
Aug 20, 2020
Assuaging teenage growing pains like a shot of novocaine administered by a shaky hand, this tender and subdued look around the limbo between adolescence and adulthood might start with a sullen kid trying to save his crush from her darkest secrets, but it never gets swept up in the idea that he actually can.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 23, 2020
Heavy-handed symbolism aside, this is a decent little drama which digs into the bewildering limbo state between childhood and the adult world – a time in which everything hurts, heads are full of hormones and time stretches out interminably.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 20, 2020
Chemical Hearts is sad, dark and depending on how much heartbreak you can take, almost too depressing at times. But it definitely provides something different in the teenage romance genre — except that something different may make you miss the days of cheesy high school rom-coms by the end.
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50
Aug 20, 2020
For all its serious-faced surface grit, Chemical Hearts never quite rings true.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 20, 2020
This elaborately contrived story feels as if it has been cobbled together from a dozen others, and it never escapes cliche.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
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10
isabrguimaraes
Sep 2, 2020
I loved the way the story is built. It is an incredible romance film, with a "deep" plot. I found it totally promising!
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llnblchs
Sep 1, 2020
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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JLuis_001
Jan 12, 2021
It may not have a cheerful tone like the vast majority of films of its kind, but beyond that, its narrative structure is weak, slow and irrelevant.
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PhilMarks
Oct 28, 2020
Nothing interesting about this. It's all been seen before and done better. Amazon Studios continues producing film school projects.
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HalfPastNein
Aug 22, 2020
Im 14 and this is deep movie about a girl and an **** It was very cringy from 10 to the last minute. The guy did well in keeping the same face all the movie. One point for multicolored credits
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Production Company Amazon Studios, Saks Picture Company, Awesomeness Films, Big Indie Pictures, Small Victory Productions
Release Date Aug 21, 2020
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating R
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Tagline Fall in love. Fall apart.
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