2021-09-24
6
137 min
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
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.