Dear Evan Hansen
- Drama
9/24/2021
137
PG-13
An honest and original story for the outsider in all of us.
Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.
- Director:
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- Revenue:
- $19,133,454
- Budget:
- $27,500,000
- high school
- suicide
- letter
- musical
- based on play or musical
- grief
- teenage boy
- guilt
- mental illness
- mental health
- emotional vulnerability
- social media
- social anxiety
- emotional abuse
- mother son relationship
- gay youth
- 2010s
- gaslighting
- school bullying
- absurd
- admiring
- awestruck
- defiant
- disapproving
- disheartening
- disrespectful
- mocking
- tragic