Dear Evan Hansen
“An honest and original story for those lost and then found.”
Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.
Genres
Drama
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Dear Evan Hansen performed
Budget
$27.5M
Worldwide Gross
$19.1M
Gross Profit
−$8.4M
Return
0.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$3M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Evan Hansen
Ben Platt
Evan Hansen
Zoe Murphy
Kaitlyn Dever
Zoe Murphy
Cynthia Murphy
Amy Adams
Cynthia Murphy
Alana Beck
Amandla Stenberg
Alana Beck
Jared Kalwani
Nik Dodani
Jared Kalwani
Heidi Hansen
Julianne Moore
Heidi Hansen
Larry Mora
Danny Pino
Larry Mora
Connor Murphy
Colton Ryan
Connor Murphy
Oliver
DeMarius R. Copes
Oliver
Gemma
Liz Kate
Gemma
Leila
Zoey Luna
Leila
Rhys
Isaac Powell
Rhys
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