After

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After

PG-13

Released Apr 12, 2019

1h 46m

Romance

Drama

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Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious and brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself -- and what she wants out of life.

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Critics Consensus

Tepid and tired, After's fun flourishes are let down by its generic story.

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Stephen Romei

The Australian

It's a movie well made for its target audience.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 12, 2019

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Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

The key to the book's success lies in its artful amateurism. It replicates the tone of one teen confiding in another and in this anodyne screen translation, its intimacy is lost.

Jul 1, 2019

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Caroline Siede

AV Club

The real problem with After is that it's a lifeless slog of thinly written clichés, one that's missing the charismatic spark of the actual One Direction boys.

Rated: C-

Apr 12, 2019

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Natasha Alvar

MovieBabble

This really is a dumpster fire of a movie, so please save your money for something more worthwhile.

Rated: C-

Jan 29, 2021

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James Croot

The Post NZ

After is also one of those teen dramas where every emotion has to be underscored by a pop-song and a hair is never out of place.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 9, 2020

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Adrian Martin

ScreenHub

Adapted from young adult fan fiction, not much happens in this adolescent love story, yet it becomes weirdly interesting.

Jun 26, 2020

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Korra N

The fact this has anything above a 10% is so telling and just sad, since the script sounds like ChatGPT, acting worse than a cheap soap opera, and some of the worst direction I've ever seen. Honestly, why do people like objectively bad movies like this?

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/07/25

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Jasmin M

I love this movie because it shows you what a unhealthy romantic relationship looks like

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

05/18/25

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Bianca E

I'm pretty much a sucker for youth romance movie ; I usually watch them doing boring research data collect. This movie is actually worse than the research job.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/28/25

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Audience Member

This will forever be the best movie ever to exist, I mean I love all of the after movies but the first one will always be great

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/19/25

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Megan G

Absolutely brilliant I highly recommend this film to anyone!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/26/25

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Tara R

I thoroughly believe that the target demographic for this film-would indeed enjoy this flick. It’s packed with conventional overdone teen stereotypes (the ‘badboy’ x ‘good girl’ trope to mention one), and features an awfully toxic ‘relationship’ that’s leaves the audience little room to actually route for either protagonist, due to their characters constant questionable choices. The two main actors don’t do a terrible job portraying their characters however the lack of depth of the characters themselves almost brings the actors down a notch with little to no room to express their full abilities on screen. The narrative is very predictable therefore gives no shock value to the audience. However with all the above being said, i believe that individuals who have yet to experience ‘proper’ cinematic pieces may enjoy this film as it could be classed as an ‘easy-watch’ due to its basic plot line and script that lacks depth.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/08/25

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Synopsis

Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious and brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself -- and what she wants out of life.

Director: Jenny Gage
Screenwriter: Susan McMartin, Tamara Chestna, Jenny Gage, Tom Betterton
Distributor: Aviron Pictures
Production Co: Wattpad, Offspring Entertainment, Diamond Film Productions, Voltage Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Some College Partying|Sexual Content)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 12, 2019, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 25, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $12.1M
Runtime: 1h 46m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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