Meet Lara Jean, the teen at the center of Susan Johnson’s “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” When she gets super intense crushes, the high schooler writes letters to the objects of her affection. Letters she never sends. Letters that nobody else knows about. “I was used to being invisible. No one was paying attention to what I was doing,” Lara Jean (Lana Condor, “X-Men: Apocalypse”) admits in a trailer for the Netflix pic.
At least one person pays attention to what she’s doing. “Can you maybe just admit that some part of you doesn’t want everything in your life to be a fantasy?” a friend asks. “You’ve gotta get out there and show people who you really are.”
It seems as though Lara Jean is making an effort to do just that — by attending parties and meeting new people — when the unthinkable happens. Her letters are sent.
Based on Jenny Han’s best-selling novel, “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” is penned by Sofia Alvarez (“Man Seeking Woman”) and directed by Johnson. The romance marks the latter’s follow-up to 2016 Bel Powley-starrer “Carrie Pilby,” her directorial debut about an alienated genius who graduates from Harvard at 18.
“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” hits Netflix August 17.
