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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.
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- Suicide or self-harm
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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Cast
- Ben PlattEvan Hansen
- Kaitlyn DeverZoe Murphy
- Amy AdamsCynthia Murphy
- Amandla StenbergAlana Beck
- Nik DodaniJared Kalwani
- Julianne MooreHeidi Hansen
- Danny PinoLarry Mora
- Colton RyanConnor Murphy
- DeMarius R. CopesOliver
- Liz KateGemma
Crew
- Stephen ChboskyDirector
- Steven LevensonScreenplay
- Brandon TrostDirector of Photography
- Benj PasekOriginal Music Composer
- Justin PaulOriginal Music Composer
- Dan RomerOriginal Music Composer
- Anne McCabeEditor
- Adam SiegelProducer
- Marc PlattProducer
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