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    <em>Love, Simon</em> Is Groundbreakingly Ordinary

    Greg Berlanti’s coming-of-age drama, centered on a gay teen struggling to come out, is both pioneering and frustratingly bland.
    by David Sims Mar 13, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Fox

    Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) is a normal teenager living a normal life. It’s something he takes pains to remind the audience of in his voice-over narration for . Like the stars of so many coming-of-age rom-coms before him, he has an impossibly gorgeous family (his parents are played by Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel), a close-knit group of friends who carpool to their suburban high school together in the minivan he owns, and a burgeoning interest in a career as a video editor.

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