After

Name: After
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: April 12, 2019
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 30
Cast: Dylan Arnold, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Inanna Sarkis, Jennifer Beals, José Alfredo Fernandez

2019

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Aviron Pictures | Release Date: April 12, 2019 | PG-13

Starring: Dylan Arnold, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Inanna Sarkis, Jennifer Beals, José Alfredo Fernandez, Josephine Langford, Khadijha Red Thunder, Meadow Williams, Peter Gallagher, Pia Mia, Samuel Larsen, Selma Blair, Shane Paul McGhie, Swen Temmel

Summary: As she enters her first semester in college, Tessa (Josephine Langford) is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Armed with grand ambitions for her future, her guarded world opens up when she meets the dark and mysterious Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes Tiffin), a magnetic, brooding rebel whoAs she enters her first semester in college, Tessa (Josephine Langford) is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Armed with grand ambitions for her future, her guarded world opens up when she meets the dark and mysterious Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes Tiffin), a magnetic, brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself and what she wants out of life.… Expand

Director: Jenny Gage

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 105 min

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Caroline Siede

Apr 12, 2019

The real problem with After is that it’s a lifeless slog of thinly written clichés, one that’s missing the charismatic spark of the actual One Direction boys. Read full review

Kimber Myers

Apr 12, 2019

The problems may lie in Todd’s novel, but regardless, characters act illogically, as though written by someone who napped through most of Intro to Psych and skipped English 101 altogether. Character motivations go either unwritten or left on the cutting room floor. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Apr 13, 2019

I feel confident that even if I were to be magically transformed into the target demographic, I would still find After to be a cliched, mediocre affair. Come back, "Twilight," all is forgiven. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 12, 2019

It’s a serious-minded first-real-love/first sexual experience coming-of-age drama which takes forever to make anything happen, and when it does (the “big reveal”), it’s so lame as to make you weigh your life up to this point, and what inspired you to waste 105 minutes on this drivel. Read full review

The Film Stage John Fink

Apr 12, 2019

Beautifully shot in Instagram-filter inspired hues by Tom Betterton and Adam Silver, After is occasionally aesthetically pleasing. Yet the talented cast is burdened by a dead on arrival screenplay that waters down what could have been an intoxicating tale of first love had it divorced itself from its dull formula that no doubt was influenced by committee and the studio’s desire to create what they think teen and tween audiences will enjoy. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Mark Dujsik

Apr 12, 2019

The performances are consistently monotone, and the dialogue is alternately treacly, in terms of romantic statements, and on-the-nose, in terms of giving Hardin a back story to explain his rebel act. Read full review

Robert Abele

Apr 12, 2019

One of the more plastic molds of troubled heartthrob storytelling in recent memory...is the kind of dispiriting effort that thinks it’s scratching an itch for masochistic young girls, but primarily suggests that romance, desire and sexuality aren’t worth genuinely exploring. Read full review

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rebekah12

Apr 15, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I think this movie is a classic romantic and ticks all the boxes for an amazing movie.This cast is amazing the chemistry between Hardin and Tessa is absolutly amazing, the way the kiss is always passionate and the way they look at each other is something everyone dreams of, the are amazing actors.This is the best movie I have ever saw and I really hope there is a second movie really soon and a third movie after that and as many as they need to do to finish the story.I have read the books and yeah there is some moments I would love to add but the movie is only slightly different from the book but in ways its better.The movie did transition fast and I wish they could have made it longer but that's because I wish t had lasted forever .Please give this movie the ratings it so deserves.I wouldn't change this movie at all aside from making it like 3 hours , every part of the movie sold me I think they are actually in love. The bet was better as it made it more about taking something more precious but it also contrasted with how much she truly changed him and how much he influenced her.After 2 please happen and more movie after movies after that with all same cast cause they made the movie.… Expand

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Maddiec

Jul 3, 2019

Amazing movie, I personally have read the book many times and started where it all began as a fan fic on wattpad and I can say that the movie definitely gave the book justice and i sat on the edge of the seat the entire movie so I definitely suggest you watch it!

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Gabzy12321

Jan 3, 2020

Very good movie! It needs a sequel for sure! I didn’t like some actors that were chosen to the movie but that’s my own opinion based on how I used to imagine it on my head while reading the book!

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Mistermovies91

Apr 18, 2019

This movie is bad, I mean really bad. If you think that "The Kissing Booth" is pure trash, you still haven't see anything. At least that movie try (with really poor results) to be light and fun, but this is really flat, pretentious, inconclusive and terribly stupid, but "Fifty Shades ofThis movie is bad, I mean really bad. If you think that "The Kissing Booth" is pure trash, you still haven't see anything. At least that movie try (with really poor results) to be light and fun, but this is really flat, pretentious, inconclusive and terribly stupid, but "Fifty Shades of Grey" kind of stupidity (and that's saying something). How did they spend 17 million on this stuff? How? The only set scenes are literally just a class, two room and a lake. Plus, the one on this film it's the most ridiculous and surreal forced drama I've ever seen, "Twilight" by comparison is a cinematic masterpiece, and what the hell was that ending? Horrible. Just horrible.… Expand

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Compi24

Apr 24, 2019

Truly an anomaly in the purest sense, "After" is that rare "how did this ever get made?" type of movie that somehow manages to confound every sensibility in your head, whilst also making you feel like you as a filmmaker/screenwriter/etc. can truly make it in the business someday. Based inTruly an anomaly in the purest sense, "After" is that rare "how did this ever get made?" type of movie that somehow manages to confound every sensibility in your head, whilst also making you feel like you as a filmmaker/screenwriter/etc. can truly make it in the business someday. Based in large part on -- I sh*t you the Hell not -- a One Direction fan fiction from author Anna Todd, this film not only represents an utterly woeful piece of original storytelling, but a decidedly problematic one. "Date sh*tty guys," the movie says. "It'll hurt, but it's the kind of hurt that you -- a useless, nothing of a little girl -- need," it says. Man, oh, man is there so much to hate about this brain-meltingly backwards film that somehow happens to be directed, produced, and written by predominately female filmmakers. To think that you could adapt a pathetic fan-fiction based on a sh*tty pop culture item that no one cares about anymore would be so laughable if it wasn't already so depressingly familiar. And it doesn't even work as a fan-fiction, considering how the litigious removal of the actual band members' names renders this concept into something that no self-respecting human being would ever care to find out about prior to watching. Without the fan-service fantasy in play, you end up with the vivisected trunk of a fan-fiction. Cardboard cutout characters. Tropes galore. A crippling misunderstanding of how to construct a cinematic plot. And a clubfoot of a thematic cancer at the end of this horribly-intentioned, ugly leg of a movie.… Expand

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pimpollo2

May 2, 2019

It's just another romantic movie, with the sexy bad boy and the silly girl, it seems that they were not based on the books of this saga, it lacked toxicity.

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0987

Apr 30, 2019

This happenes when you rely on trailer and got interesed to see this movie. After watching this movie, I felt completely dissapointed that I couldn't explain. This movie is completely awful, nothing exciting happens. Totally wasted 90 minutes.

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