The Half Of It is a Netflix teen romance Cyrano de Bergerac-style. Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) may be the smartest teen in her small-town high school but she's resigned to being stuck there to help her father coping with life after mom died.

To make ends meet she writes essays for pay but one day jock Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) hires Ellie to ghost write love letters to his crush Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire), who turns out is Ellie's secret crush. Through Paul's letters, emails, and text messages Ellie and Aster form a bond which makes it all the harder for Ellie that Aster thinks it's Paul, who himself is a fairly nice guy.

Eventually all three will have to resolve this situation and along the way Ellie realizes that she needs to grow and leave town for a big university and her father will be all right without her...

I watched a YouTube video listing the ten best LGBTQ romance speeches and this was one of the films listed and the speech is quite good. The story is interesting and charming and nobody is a bad guy. Feel good film.