Over the course of the day, Daniel has taken a day off school for an interview with a lawyer for a recommendation to get him into Dartmouth.Īs coincidence would have it, Natasha, a Carl Sagan-worshipping nerd who tells her story in voice-over filled with astronomical allusions, has 24 hours to meet that same pro-bono nice-guy lawyer ( John Leguizamo), who may help save her immigrant family from being deported to Jamaica. The script, by Tracy Oliver ( Girls Trip) follows the one-day romance genre of such films as Before Sunrise. In the movie, Daniel, wants to be a poet, while his immigrant parents are pushing him toward a medical career. Meanwhile her romantic interest, Daniel (Melton), is, like Yoon’s illustrator husband David Yoon, an artistically-inclined Korean-American.
Like the author, the character of Natasha (Shahidi) is a Jamaican-born black woman. The Sun Is Also A Star is also autobiographically inspired. She has said her first novel, about an excessively protective mother, reflected her anxiety as the mother of a bi-racial child. The romantic impediment here of imminent deportation could easily substitute for, say, a potentially fatal disease - a favourite YA trope, used in Yoon’s first novel, Everything, Everything (which was also given the screen treatment in 2017).īut both stories have a basis in Yoon’s immigrant experience.
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