What passes as young romance for the film’s intended audience sends out some questionable messages but Hardin is after all super dreamy. Oh and I might have forgotten to mention he speaks with a smooth British accent. He also read books and drives a cool car.

There are numerous moments in the storyline that mirror one’s own experiences of early romances but only for those with a very over developed sense of revisionist reality. No one was actually that smooth as a freshman.

There are films with humour at the core of their misguidedness and it’s always fun to decide if it was intentional or not. After is just such a film. It’s almost entertaining in its flagrant over simplification of first time love.

Rob Hudson
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Armed with grand ambitions for her future, her guarded world opens up when she meets the dark and mysterious Hardin Scott, a magnetic, brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself and what she wants out of life.

After will be released in Australian cinemas July 4!
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