The Sun Is Also a Star
“Love is a universe all of its own.”
Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.
Genres
Romance, Drama
Studio
Alloy Entertainment
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Sun Is Also a Star performed
Budget
$9.0M
Worldwide Gross
$6.8M
Gross Profit
−$2.2M
Return
0.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Romance) 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
Natasha Kingsley
Yara Shahidi
Natasha Kingsley
Daniel Jae Ho Bae
Charles Melton
Daniel Jae Ho Bae
Lester Barnes
Hill Harper
Lester Barnes
Samuel Kingsley
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Samuel Kingsley
Charlie Bae
Jake Choi
Charlie Bae
Jeremy Martinez
John Leguizamo
Jeremy Martinez
Young Natasha
Anais Lee
Young Natasha
Patricia Kingsley
Miriam A. Hyman
Patricia Kingsley
Peter Kingsley
Jordan Williams
Peter Kingsley
Dae Hyun Bae
Keong Sim
Dae Hyun Bae
Min Soo Bae
Cathy Shim
Min Soo Bae
Hannah
Shamika Cotton
Hannah
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