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Teenage Protagonist | Small Town
Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
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Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
Best Actress | 2021 | Leah
Best Narrative Feature | 2020 | Alice
Top Most Popular Narrative Animated Feature | 2021
Studio Movie | 2021
Best New Performer | 2021 | Leah
Best Screenplay | 2021 | Alice
Outstanding Film Limited Release | 2021
Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under Million Dollars | 2021 | Tracy
Best Original Screenplay | 2020 | Alice
Best Original Screenplay | 2020 | Alice
Best Director | 2020 | Alice
Best Actress | 2020 | Leah
Breakout of the Year | 2020 | Leah
US Narrative Feature | 2020
The opening monologue is the story told by Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium. Aristophanes was a comedic playwright at the time of Socrates and Plato and is considered the greatest Greek comedic writer. The Symposium is a dialogue about a dinner that Socrates attends. During dinner Socrates, in typical fashion, begins to ask questions of his host and the other guests. The dialogue centers on the topic of love, each interlocutor attempts to answer the question what is love? Aristophanes' story tells of how humans use to be whole and the gods got jealous and split us apart. We spend our lives searching for that other half. According to Aristophanes, our other half could be someone of the same or opposite gender.
A photo of Ellie's deceased mother is shown twice in the film. This is in fact a picture of actress Joan Chen, who starred in Alice Wu's directorial debut Saving Face (2004).
Alice Wu's second feature film after sixteen years.
Aster's text handle is Diega Rivero (a play on the name of Mexican artist Diego Rivera), alluding to Aster's Mexican heritage.
Title of the movie comes from a story in Plato's Symposium.
"Ellie Chu: Gravity is matter's response to loneliness."
"[Ellie, the true author of many classmate assignments turned in, comes up to Mrs. Geselschap's front desk to turn in her own assignment] Mrs. Geselschap: Six different takes on Plato. Impressive. Ellie Chu: [maintaining the pretense] Just the one. Mrs. Geselschap: That's what I tell the bartender. Ellie Chu: How come you never turn me in? Mrs. Geselschap: And have to read the actual essays they'd write?"
