High school makes strange bedfellows. How else does a quiet jock end up turning to another quiet, nerdy girl for help in wooing a popular girl?
So goes the premise of the new Netflix comedy The Half of It from writer/director Alice Wu. The movie reimagines Cyrano De Bergerac in an adolescent setting, substituting a queer woman for the verbose Frenchman with a long nose.
The film casts Leah Lewis as Ellie, the shy girl in question; Daniel Diemer as Paul, the sweet but slightly dopey footballer;