Writer/director Alice Wu did not set out to make a teen movie. She started writing — in what became “The Half of It” (Netflix, May 1) — about her own coming-out story. “My best friend in college was a straight white guy,” she says. “He helped me accept myself as gay more than anyone.
But his new girlfriend was wary of our relationship, despite knowing I was gay, and slowly, ineffably, the delicate calculus of our connection eroded.” Wu started to write about her heartbreak over the loss of