After losing his beloved mother, a man risks everything to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas — grandmothers — as the chefs.

Dear Evan Hansen

2021

English

6.1

♡ 35

28%

88%

Action

autism

based on play or musical

Stephen Chbosky Director

Amy Adams as Cynthia Murphy

Julianne Moore as Heidi Hansen

Chris TC Edge as Law Firm Executive

Aimee Garcia as Librarian

Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2012

English

♡ 353

85%

89%

Action

based on novel or book

christmas movie alternative

Stephen Chbosky Director

Nina Dobrev as Candace

Logan Lerman as Charlie

Paul Rudd as Mr. Anderson

Emma Watson as Sam

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.