There are plenty of scenes where one or both of the lovers are sobbing or making confessions hoping they can make it work, or they revealing one only pursued the other because they were dared to. Somehow, the one aspect of Chemical Hearts’ emotional rollercoaster that manages to work is Grace’s pain, and the suffering it causes Henry. The blueprint of something like The Fault In Our Stars is very much in play here. Quirks are handed out in abundance, the tragic secret from Grace’s past is eventually confronted when it threatens her relationship with Henry, and there’s even the usual band of best friends our protagonist has to fall back on when times are tough. In a weird fashion, writer/director Richard Tanne’s adaptation of Chemical Hearts knows the building blocks of a YA romance, and deploys them frequently. Chemical Hearts knows the formula to a semi-tragic teen drama, but only hits the highlights. Their relationship, while slow to start, eventually takes off into the highs and lows you’d expect from a high school romance, but also with Grace’s secret past threatening to unravel everything at a moment’s notice. All of that changes once he meets the mysterious Grace (Lili Reinhart), who is not only his co-editor in chief on the school paper, but becomes his first girlfriend. Taking its story from Krystal Sutherland’s YA romance of the same name, Our Chemical Hearts follows Henry (Austin Abrams), a serious teenager who’s never been in a romantic couple before.
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