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The Sun Is Also a Star (Original title)
Date: 2019 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Director: Ry Russo-Young

Synopsis: A young couple meet and fall in love. Their blossoming romance is disrupted when one of their families faces deportation from the USA.

Genre:
Romance

Subject:
Migration
Releases
Date: 17 May 2019Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 100 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner Bros.
Date: 09 August 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 100 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner Bros. Pictures International (UK)

Credits (48)
©: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., ©: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc, an Alloy Entertainment production: Alloy Entertainment, present: Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc, Filmed with the Support of the: New York State Governor’s Office of Motion Picture & Television Development, Executive Producer: Pamela Hirsch, Executive Producer: Tracy Oliver, Produced by: Leslie Morgenstein, Produced by: Elysa Koplovitz Dutton, Unit Production Manager: Pamela Hirsch, Production Accountant: Brittany Sugarman, Location Manager: Sascha Springer, Post-production Supervisor: Paul A. Levin, Post-production Supervisor: Ann M. Gray, 1st Assistant Director: Murphy Occhino, 2nd Assistant Director: Heather Verbeke, Script Supervisor: Sam Evoy, Casting by: Avy Kaufman, Extras Casting by: Central Casting, Screenplay by: Tracy Oliver, Based on the novel by: Nicola Yoon, Director of Photography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, A Camera Operator: Andrew Michael Fletcher, Steadicam Operator: Andrew Michael Fletcher, Still Photographer: Atsushi Nishijima, Visual Effects Supervisor: John P. Nugent, Additional Visual Effects by: Sandbox Pictures, Special Effects Co-ordinator: Mike Marks, Edited by: Joe Landauer, Production Designer: Wynn Thomas, Art Director: Christopher Minard, Set Decorator: Alexandra Mazur, Graphic Designer: Ashley E. Chan, Property Master: Monika Jacobs, Costume Designer: Deirdra Elizabeth Govan, Make-Up Department Head: Linda Kaufman, Hair Department Head: Belinda Anderson, Vera Stromsted, Title Design and Graphic Sequences by: Teddy Blanks, Colourist: Andrew Geary, Music by: Herdís Stefánsdóttir, Music Supervisor: Warren Fischer, Production Sound Mixer: Antonio L. Arroyo, Re-recording Mixer: Lewis Goldstein, Supervising Sound Editor: Lewis Goldstein, Unit Publicist: Sabrina Laufer
Cast (10)
Yara Shahidi (Natasha Kingsley), Anais Lee (young Natasha), Charles Melton (Daniel Jae Ho Bae), John Leguizamo (Jeremy Martinez), Gbenga Akinnagbe (Samuel Kingsley), Miriam A. Hyman (Patricia Kingsley), Jordan Williams (Peter Kingsley), Jake Choi (Charles Bae), Keong Sim (Dae Hyun Bae), Cathy Shim (Min Soo Bae)