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Alice Wu’s film The Half of It was set to debut at the Tribeca Film Festival. It had a prime spot on opening weekend and it was good to go for a theatrical release but then COVID-19 happened. Like all festivals, it was canceled, but Wu just rolled with the punches. “I’m bummed that my friends and family aren’t going…

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’s heartfelt and personal teen romance The Half of It doesn’t feel stale at all thanks to few twists and an exceptionally bright young cast…

In a time when we can all use a little more love, Alice Wu has hopped back into the director’s chair to give us Netflix coming-of-age dramedy The Half of It which released its first trailer ahead of its May 1 debut. This marks the return of Wu, who also directed the critically acclaimed 2004 romantic drama Saving…

Netflix has started production on The Half of It, writer-director Alice Wu’s follow-up to her 2004 feature film Saving Face. The new movie joins Netflix’s expanding roster of live-action teen-focused films like Tall Girl and A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting. As the follow-up to the Sony Pictures Classics…