The premise isn’t terribly original — yet another comic takeoff on the Cyrano de Bergerac formula mined by so many others including Steve Martin’s brilliant Roxanne. But Alice Wu&…
The premise isn’t terribly original — yet another comic takeoff on the Cyrano de Bergerac formula mined by so many others including Steve Martin’s brilliantdoesn’t feel stale at all thanks to few twists and an exceptionally bright young cast led by the beguiling Leah Lewis.She plays the young Chinese immigrant who writes love letters for a not-so-bright bulb on the football team because apparently he can’t put together a coherent thought about his crush on the beautiful new girl in town.
Paul hires Ellie, known for writing classmates’ English papers for a price, to write love letters to win over Aster. As she does agree to do just one, it becomes a much more complex assignment than she ever dreamed as the notes becomepersonal and it is clear that we don’t even know the half of it when it comes to the romantic longings of Ellie.
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