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SWEETHEARTS

US, 2024, 98 minutes, Colour.

Kiernan Shipka, Nico Hiraga, Caleb Hearon, Ava DMary, Charlie Hall, Tramell Tillman, Christine Taylor.

Directed by Jordan Weiss.

Sweethearts can be described as a young adult comedy. However, it does not proceed in the way that might have been anticipated in the trailer or the advertisements. In one sense, it might be considered somewhat counter-cultural.

The intended audience is young adults who can identify with the characters and the situations but may well be of interest to parents concerned about their young adult children and their relationships and choices.

Kernan Shipka Jamie and Nico Hir poagartrays Ben. They have a special relationship, Besties, a relationship of friendship from school days. Jamie has a boyfriend and Ben has a girlfriend. There are a number of party sequences in which we can understand Jamie and Ben, their friendship, the attraction, but more platonic. The whole lot of entanglements with the behaviour of Claire and Simon, and their suspicions, and Jamie and Ben planning to break their relationship with each of them.

A different turn comes into the film with the introduction of the character, Palmer, Caleb Hearon, was been living overseas in Paris, returns, friendship with Jamie and Ben.

With Palmer, there is the introduction of the gay theme, identity, acceptance, Palmer finding the coach in the town also to be gay and introducing him to a bowling club where the whole team is gay. Happy ending for Palmer.

There is quite a range of supporting characters, young characters roommates to pressurise, past crushes who are imposing, obnoxious people on a bus… Christine Taylor appears as Ben’s mother.

After a range of episodes, travels, Jamie and Ben agree to break up, Jamie being the last to discover that Ben has had plans to go to Copenhagen for studies. But, they remain friends.

When Ben finishes in Copenhagen, he returns home, encounters Jamie…

One might say an interesting friendship and Platonic relationship between two young adults rather than just sexual experiences. There are references to When Harry met Sally.