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Dear Evan Hansen

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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. From TMDB

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  • Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2026

    This is what I appreciate about the In the Heights movie, that he did the rare inverse Dear Evan Hansen and let his age-appropriate, better-looking friend play the character he originated

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  • Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.socialBluesky · May 24, 2025

    Scarlett Johansson's "Eleanor the Great" is "Dear Evan Hansen" for Holocaust survivors. Weirdest film I've seen at #Cannes2025, an attempted crowdpleaser so fascinatingly apolitical it circles back around to relevant, in ways it isn’t prepared to handle. decider.com/2025/05/23/s...

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  • Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2026

    Nepo-baby discourse should not be about how Jane Fonda’s dad was Henry Fonda, it should be about how Ben Platt being so comically miscast in Dear Evan Hansen can be best explained by the fact that his dad produced the film

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  • Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    Writing a review of a festival film and looked up an intriguing young actor to see what his deal is. And, welp, he was just in a Danish production of Dear Evan Hansen. Really sad that we inflicted that show on the rest of the world.

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  • Zak @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 17, 2026

    The list: https://github.com/nzaki-dev/dialog - **Immad Akhund** - Founder & CEO, Mercury. - **Turki Al Faisal Al Saud** - Founder, King Faisal Foundation. Fmr. Minister of Intelligence, Saudi Arabia. - **Reema Al-Saud** - Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.S. - **John Arnold** - Co-Chair, Arnold Ventures. Fmr. Founder, Centaurus Advisors. - **Susan Athey** - Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Fmr. Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice. - **Peter…

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  • Take Meowt by Franz Ferdinyan @wendysnowradish.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2026

    I’m expecting the cast of the New Harry Potter series to go through an even worse version of what the Stranger Things kids get through where they’re only on book four but they all look like the film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen

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  • BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2025

    however you *can* get 'the lead insists on keeping this role even though he's aged out of it, and his dad is producing the movie.' And that's how we got the magic of Dear Evan Hansen.

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  • Dane Canyon @cantwait2b.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    What movie take has you like this? I’ll start. Dear Evan Hansen isn’t the bad film you were told it was. In fact, it’s a wonderful film. A rare instance of a haircut ruining an entire world’s perception of a film.

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  • Annie “Trannie” Andrews @itsannieandrews.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2025

    many of you don’t know this, but i actually had a callback for the Dear Evan Hansen movie

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  • Jeff, but a Spooky Ghost @blueberrywerewolf.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 7, 2025

    I'll never understand why people would listen to Dear Evan Hansen when they could just listen to Jenny Nicholson's Youtube review of the Dear Evan Hansen movie adaptation

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  • Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2025

    speaking of musicals can we talk about how weird the Dear Evan Hansen movie was as a result of their MC casting?

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  • The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🎃 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 Halloween Era @theautisticart.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2025

    There's something ironic that in the fact that in the 2021 film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen, it was hard to believe Ben Platt (age 27) was ten years younger as Evan Hansen, while Julianne Moore was 60 and played Evan's mom (a character 20 years younger) effortlessly.

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  • Be Steel My Heart 💛💙 @genuinejavajunkie.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2025

    Beautiful, heartbreaking lyrics in this one. This movie made me 😢. Anonymous Ones, Dear Evan Hansen #CarlsChallenge youtu.be/UJpYbo60OoY

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  • Megz @artsngrafts.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2025

    Surprised Jason with local theatre tickets of Dear Evan Hansen a while ago and the showing is finally next weekend! He’s not even seen the film, and he’s managed to avoid any spoilers about it. I know all about it but still, so excited 🥹

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  • Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    None of the characters in Dear Evan Hansen are queer. Except in the movie, where they make the best friend side character who makes a homophobic joke in the stage musical gay, to make the homophobic joke less homophobic

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  • Supporting Actresses @actressespod.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    We're on week 2 of Amy playing grieving mothers... but this time it's a musical about social anxiety, depression, and suicide! @kevintporter.bsky.social joins us to discuss Dear Evan Hansen, the film adaptation of the hit Broadway show that won 6 Tony awards. 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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  • Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2026

    of all the failures of the Dear Evan Hansen movie, I'm still *amazed* that they cut Good For You, which is one of the best songs AND one of the most important character beats in the musical. I guess they were afraid to include a song going "Evan is a massive piece of shit and he knows it lmao"

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  • The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🎃 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 Halloween Era @theautisticart.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2025

    I figured why not try attempting to do a fan poster for an adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen (knowing how the actual film adaptation dropped the ball) Evan Hansen, a high school senior who struggles with social anxiety, gets himself caught in a web of lies after a classmate takes his own life.

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  • Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expertBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    Dear Evan Hansen I almost gave up film

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  • Sam 🎉 @anoddgeography.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2024

    just saw the most cursed bus - it still had a poster for the Dear Evan Hansen movie on its side

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  • hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    Watching Dear Evan Hansen the movie for the first time in a post Diet Pepsi climate just kinda made me feel bad for Ben Platt. You did a good job baby, there were just some unsettling choices x

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  • Susie Mc @susiemc23.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    Tomorrow night I finally get to see Dear Evan Hansen on stage. I’ve seen the film (not great) and read the book (it was pretty good) but never seen the stage show. Finally get to cross it off my list!

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  • Prouvaire @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 22, 2023

    A Tiananmen Square Musical Worries About China’s Glare. Highlights for those unable to get past the paywall: “Tiananmen: A New Musical,” with a book by Scott Elmegreen and music and lyrics by Drew Fornarola, follows two fictional students at Beijing Normal University who are named after real students killed by the military. Initially, the students, Peiwen and XiaoLi, have contrasting perspectives on the protests, but they fall in love and witness history as tanks roll into the square and…

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  • John Bonazzo @johnbonazzo.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 2, 2026

    I forgive him for the Dear Evan Hansen movie

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  • Antony 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (He/They) @remylebeau-uk.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2025

    Just watched Dear Evan Hansen with @licencetoqueer.com. Both of us expecting a heart warming / uplifting musical. I feel terrorised. It was so tense and I was on edge the whole film. It was like a horror about a pathological liar. Like Saltburn + songs. Surely we aren't alone in this reaction?

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  • Abhijeet :) @bonabhijeet.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 2, 2025

    yall, i thought Love Simon was the film sequel to the Dear Evan Hansen play

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  • UNSATISFACTORY HANDJOB WEREWOLF @joehunter.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    They’ve apparently reworked the production design for the touring version of DEAR EVAN HANSEN to disassociate it from the movie and lol, lmao

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  • 🎀Lorenzo🫧 @bway-drawz.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2024

    Hi! I recently switched here from twitter, so I thought I’d list some of my fandoms Be More Chill (book/play/musical) Dear Evan Hansen (musical/book) Heathers (movie/musical) Mean Girls (movie/musical) Goosebumps (musical) Falsettos Book of Mormon The Black Suits Joker out (band) Good Omens (book)

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  • Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2024

    That said, I can't hear about Dear Evan Hansen now without remembering Jenny Nicholson's breakdown of the film version. It's hilariously and distressingly on point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8quW...

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  • The Picture Of Jared Gray 💀 @misterjaredgray.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2026

    “Amy Adams and Julianne Moore were in the Dear Evan Hansen movie” will never not be an insane sentence

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  • Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 25, 2025

    It’s been 9.5 years since the first season came out, and they’re fully in the movie version of Dear Evan Hansen territory now

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  • Yur Amish Princess @xoxochaotika.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2025

    Do you want to do drugs and watch Dear Evan Hansen The Movie The Musical?!

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  • Ellie Rose @ellierose.meBluesky · May 21, 2025

    Nothing makes you realize how incredible the Wicked movie is quite like watching the Dear Evan Hansen movie right before it

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  • Nomnom LeConte, Esq. PhD MD DDS @eldergay.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2025

    I'm rewatching Dear Evan Hansen 👕 and people need to stop the slander against this movie. Yes Ben Platt is a 27 year old playing a HS student, but the kids in Grease were much older. ONJ was 29 and Stockard Channing was 33 ffs. I love this movie.

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  • Zach Giering @zachgiering.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    Dear Evan Hansen is the antidepressant ad of movie musicals

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  • ARSON / IDIOT!!!! 🇵🇹❗❗ @assblaster87.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2024

    WAIT LET ME MAKE A CURRENT FANDOMS POST UHHH CURRENT FANDOMS ARE OSC- HFJONE BFB TPOT II BURNER OBJECTIFIED I FORGOT THE REST GENERAL- OSC SALLY FACE TOH TBOI (THE BINDING OF ISAAC) HEATHERS (NOT FULLY WATCHED) DEAR EVAN HANSEN (MOVIE) HAMILTON (NOT FULLY WATCHED) ROTTMNT TRYING TO GET INTO TMNT

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  • Big Witch Energy | Erin McInnis @erinbraincandy.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2023

    PSA: the movie "Theater Camp" with Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen) and Ayo Edebiri (Sydney on The Bear) is now available on Disney Plus... at least in Canada.

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  • BlueskyDawn @blueskydawn.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2026

    Just got back from seeing the musical Dear Evan Hansen at the local playhouse. It was amazing but it broke me, even though I knew the story from the movie version. 😭

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  • Bijhan Agha @bijhan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    I have nothing against musicals. The Sound of Music is a wonderful movie and play. The Wizard of Oz is a classic. Muppets and Disney make fantastic movies. But holy crap are most musical theater productions horrendous. Grease, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen... truly horrific stories with cheesy music.

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  • Notorious P.I.G. (Your Halloween Hogmother) 🐽🦇 @anotoriouspig.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2026

    Dear Hollywood Maybe moviegoers wouldn't hate musicals if "Cats" (the movie) and "Dear Evan Hansen" (the movie) and "Mean Girls" (the movie) didn't keep tricking us into seeing bad movie musicals

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  • Robert MacFarlane @robmacfarlane16.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    I still find it uncanny how much Ben Platt stole from Todd when he made the Dear Evan Hansen movie.

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  • Prof Ineffable Toreshi @traceylynntobin.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2026

    Ha! My kid and I watched Hamilton together too! Only on TV, but still. 😁 We both enjoyed it thoroughly. Fair warning, if you ever decide to be curious: 'Dear Evan Hansen' is a beautiful movie that we both really enjoyed, but we were fucking SOBBING. She apologized to me afterward. 😅

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  • chiliedogg @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 7, 2026

    I saw Dear Evan Hansen in like 2019. The staging was kinda neat, and the vocal performances were spectacular. The story was.... something.

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  • A🔻atar of 🔻engeance @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 19, 2026

    ‘Labubu’ Movie Set at Sony With ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Screenwriter Steven Levenson to Join ‘Paddington’ Director Paul King. What I'm supposed to post about the $150 going price for oil barrels *before* the refineries started getting hit? The largest train station that transports the whole ass IDF? Well it's actually relevant, this is anti-Dubai agitprop. Not that it will help make sense of cryptic Labubu posting. It's the tendency of the rate of profit to fall or some shit. I want to go home. They…

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  • James Sims @simsjames.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2026

    Whoops. Right out of the gate, Ben Platt in the film adaption of “Dear Evan Hansen.” That hair didn’t fool the critics, huh? #movies

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  • eclipsesong @eclipsesong.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 10, 2026

    why is this movie the plot of Dear Evan Hansen

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  • Noah @smellycandle42.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2025

    Weird comparison but the thing it reminds me of is how so many people on Tumblr got really into Dear Evan Hansen based on the soundtrack and were shocked when they saw the movie and learned what it was about. But at least they had the excuse of not being able to see it on stage

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  • James Sims @simsjames.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2025

    Jeremy Strong will star in Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to “The Social Network” and all I can picture is him wearing the “Dear Evan Hansen” movie wig…

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  • Isaacarthy @realisaacarthy.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    Same. The fact that an animated kids’ film handled themes about depression and suicide than stuff like 13 Reasons Why and Dear Evan Hansen is genuinely commendable

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  • David Genz💚🏳️‍🌈 @davidgenz.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    I can't help but think of Ben Platt in that Dear Evan Hansen film. Not sure why.

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  • Dallas Voice @dallasvoice.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2024

    Review: ‘Dear Evan Hansen remains an emotional powerhouse of a musical’ dallasvoice.com/review-dear-...

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  • Dane Canyon @cantwait2b.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    WHY CAN’T YOU JUST ADMIT DEAR EVAN HANSEN IS A GREAT FILM?

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  • Jenny @fiercelyeverafter.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    I don't honestly know anything about him personally. 😂 Just the general vibe. And I guess there was a looooot of people annoyed he played Dear Evan Hansen in the movie looking 40 (but was only 26 iirc 😭) when it should have been an actual teenager.

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  • Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.comBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    So happy to hear this. I’ve been disappointed by recent movie musicals (Dear Evan Hansen killed me) but I was always going to take the risk to see Wicked. Can’t wait to see it!

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  • SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2024

    like you have all these superhero movies that are trying way too hard to be ~gritty and realistic~ instead of just embracing the ridiculousness and fantasy of their genre and this same phenomenon has resulted in some truly horrible movie musical adaptations (cough cough Dear Evan Hansen)

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  • matchphoenix @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 15, 2023

    Karamo Brown Says He, Bobby Berk and Jonathan Van Ness Weren't Invited to Antoni Porowski's Bachelor Party. Tan France was the only 'Queer Eye' member who attended Porowski's recent celebrations in the Tennessee woods The Fab 5 aren't all feeling fab about Antoni Porowsk's recent bachelor party. Last weekend, Queer Eye's food expert celebrated his upcoming nuptials to fiancé Kevin Harrington in Tennessee's Blackberry Mountain with several celebrity friends, including costar Tan France. But…

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  • Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2023

    The film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen is now on Netflix. Do yourself a huge favour and never ever watch it.

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  • Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    Tony Shalhoub won lots of awards for Monk, Jim Parsons for Big Bang Theory, Ben Platt won a Tony for Dear Evan Hansen (and a Razzie nomination for the film version!)

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  • Shaghik {ʃɑˈʁik} @shaghik.comBluesky · May 13, 2026

    Throwback to when the Dear Evan Hansen movie came out and everyone found out what the musical was actually about

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  • North Is Up Productions @kylenorty.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2026

    Dear Evan Hansen (2021): There are some parts of this movie I found genuinely moving (mainly the songs), but there were a lot more that made me sad (in the wrong way) or uncomfortable. I didn't hate it, and I think people complaining about the cast is a bit harsh, but it doesn't really work.

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