Lili Reinhart, Austin Abrams Star In Emotional Preview Of Richard Tanne’s CHEMICAL HEARTS On Amazon Prime August 21

“Being young is so painful…its almost too much to feel”

Written and directed by Richard Tanne, here’s the gut-wrenching preview for CHEMICAL HEARTS starring Lili Reinhart, Austin Abrams, Sarah Jones, Adhir Kalyan, Kara Young, Coral Peña, C.J. Hoff.

The movie debuts on Amazon Prime Video August 21st.

The film is based on the book “Our Chemical Hearts” by Krystal Sutherland.

Seventeen-year-old Henry Page (Austin Abrams) has never been in love. He fancies himself a romantic, but the kind of once-in-a-lifetime love he’s been hoping for just hasn’t happened yet. Then, on the first day of senior year, he meets transfer student Grace Town (Lili Reinhart) and it seems all that is about to change. When Grace and Henry are chosen to co-edit the school paper, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious newcomer. As he learns the heartbreaking secret that has changed her life, he finds himself falling in love with her — or at least the person he thinks she is.

The music is by Stephen James Taylor (Southside with You, Maya Angelou And Still I Rise).

Reinhart, who is also the executive producer, was an admirer of writer-director Richard Tanne’s feature film debut, Southside with You, which imagines the first date between Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson. When she reached out to him about directing Chemical Hearts, she discovered that the story of two teenagers learning to let their vulnerabilities shine through their fear struck a chord with him as well.

Tanne started work on the screenplay the same day he met Reinhart, despite not having secured the film rights yet. “It immediately appealed to me because it was a story about the first great love of your life, which was also the first great heartbreak of your life,” he explains. “Chemical Hearts is about the pain and beauty of being young and feeling adult emotions for the first time. It’s a story about learning that when you fall apart, it’s up to you, and no one else, to put yourself back together.”

Reinhart was last seen starring opposite Jennifer Lopez in Lorene Scafaria’s feature film “Hustlers” which premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and went on to make over $150 million at the at box office. Additionally, the film was nominated for “Best Feature” at the 2019 Gotham Awards and won the New York Film Critics (NYFCO) as one of the “Top Films of the Year.” Lili’s other film credits include: Melanie Laurent’s GALVESTON opposite Elle Fanning and Ben Foster (premiered at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival) and Julia Hart’s MISS STEVENS, opposite Lily Rabe and Timothee Chalamet (premiered at SXSW in 2016).