The Sun Is Also a Star
for some suggestive content and language.
| Moral Rating: | not reviewed |
| Moviemaking Quality: |
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| Primary Audience: | Teenage Girls |
| Genre: | Romance Drama Adaptation |
| Length: | 1 hr. 40 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2019 |
| USA Release: |
May 17, 2019 (wide—2,073 theaters) DVD: August 20, 2019 |
An illegal immigrant family in America facing deportation
The American dream
Emotional manipulation by filmmakers
Reference to “deus ex machina”—“a person or thing in fiction or drama that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty”
Teens and their parents
The question of whether to follow one’s own dreams or those of your parent(s)
Teens disobeying parents and the boundaries they set
New Age
The New Age idea that one should open their heart to “destiny” —and rely on its direction in their life / chosing to be open to “fate”
Astronomy and Evolutionism
The film has a lot of talk about the Big Bang and Evolutionist Carl Sagan
Reference to the idea of there being a multiverse—multipled realities
Astronomy in the Bible
ASTRONOMY—Can astronomy lead a person to God? Answer
STARDUST—Are humans made of stardust? Answer
About true love
TRUE LOVE—What is true love and how do you know when you have found it? Answer
What is LOVE, for a follower of Christ? Answer
Teen issues
| Featuring |
Yara Shahidi … Natasha Kingsley Charles Melton … Daniel Bae Faith Logan … Commuter Gbenga Akinnagbe … Samuel Kingsley Jake Choi … Charlie Bae Cathy Shim … Min Soo Bae Camrus Johnson … Omar Anais Lee … Young Natasha Matt Post … Daniel's Family Member Miriam A. Hyman … Patricia Kingsley See all » |
| Director |
Ry Russo-Young |
| Producer |
Alloy Entertainment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) See all » |
| Distributor |
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “Over the course of a single day in New York City, two teenagers who have nothing in common randomly meet and fall in love. Natasha is a practical young woman trying to keep her family from being deported in a matter of hours. Daniel is a poet at heart, but on this day he is dutifully making good on his familial commitment to a college interview. The two are inexplicably drawn to each other and somehow their paths keep converging. The Sun is Also a Star is a thought-provoking story of possibility, fate, and the illogical beauty of love.
This film is based on the best-selling young adult novel of the same name written by Nicola Yoon about a teenager who finds love at a difficult time in her family’s life.
Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.
Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.
The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?”
- Vulgar/Crude language: • f-words (1 or more) • “d*ck” and a hand gesture indicating the size of same • “b*lls” • “I’d do her” • s-words (6) • “a**hole” • “a**” (2)
- Profane language: • G*d (2) • H*ll (5) • d*mn
- Sex: • sexual comments • kissing • sexual activity • “Do you have an Asian fetish…”
- Nudity: • shirtless male
- Violence: Mild— • fight
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