To All the Boys I've Loved Before

 

Synopsis

Shy high school junior Lara Jean Covey writes letters to boys she feels an intense passion for before locking them away in her closet. Her most recent is to her childhood friend Josh, who was dating her older sister Margot until she moves to college, and breaks up with him. Lara Jean has always had a crush on Josh, but decides it would not be okay to date him. One night, Lara Jean falls asleep on the couch while hanging out with her little sister, Kitty, who sneaks into her room and finds her collection of letters. The following Monday at school, Lara Jean is confronted by a former crush, Peter Kavinsky. He received the letter she had written him, causing her to faint. After waking up, she sees Josh approaching with his letter, and in a moment of panic, Lara Jean kisses Peter to throw Josh off before running away.

Lara Jean then encounters another recipient of a letter, Lucas, who is gay, as she begins to realize that all the letters have been mailed out. She later left her house to avoid both Josh and Peter, but the latter appears at her favorite diner. She explains that the kiss was merely to dissuade Josh. Peter is surprisingly okay with this, and proposes that he and Lara Jean fake date to make his ex-girlfriend (Lara Jean's ex-best friend and nemesis) Gen jealous. She agrees, and the next few months go by with the whole school, along with their respective friends and families, believing they are dating.

When Peter finds that Gen is actually jealous, he is himself conflicted. At the same time, Lara Jean finds herself jealous. On the school ski trip, Lara Jean and Peter confront each other about their true feelings, ending up kissing while alone in a hot tub. At the end of the trip, Gen tells Lara Jean that Peter spent the night in her room after the kiss, taunting Lara Jean with her scrunchie Peter let her take, Lara Jean's favorite. Furious, she breaks up with Peter and storms home, where she finds Margot has returned from college. Peter then comes, hoping to explain that nothing happened between him and Gen, but Josh arrives as well. Margot overhears everything, and is upset when she learns of Lara Jean's former feelings for Josh. Things are worsened when, after Lara Jean asks Peter to leave, she sees that a seemingly pornographic video of her and Peter in the hot tub has been put up on Instagram.

Lara Jean asks Margot for help, who calms and comforts her. Kitty then reveals she sent the letters. Lara Jean is enraged, Margot calms her down, and makes her realize she may have wanted to send them but was too afraid to, and the sisters forgive each other before getting Instagram to take down the video. After Christmas break, Lara Jean discovers that everyone at school knows about the video. Peter tells everyone that nothing happened. When Lara Jean confronts Gen about it, she admits she tried to sabotage their relationship as she felt betrayed that Lara Jean kissed Peter during spin the bottle four years ago. Talking with her dad, she reevaluates her relationships, becoming friends with Josh again. When she hesitates to tell Peter about her real feelings, Kitty shows her notes that he wrote during their 'relationship'. Lara Jean goes to see Peter, and he tells her that he is in love with her. They kiss before walking off together.

In a mid-credits scene, John Ambrose McClaren, one of the five recipients of Lara Jean's letters, arrives at her door with flowers in hand.

 

Cast & Character 

• Lana Condor as Lara Jean
  • Isabelle Beech as young Lara Jean
• Noah Centineo as Peter, one of Lara Jean's love letter recipients
  • Hunter Dillon as young Peter
• Janel Parrish as Margot, Lara Jean's older sister and Josh's ex-girlfriend
• Anna Cathcart as Kitty, Lara Jean's younger sister
• Andrew Bachelor as Greg, Peter's best friend
• Trezzo Mahoro as Lucas, a friend of Lara Jean's and one of her former crushes
• Madeleine Arthur as Christine, Genevieve's cousin and Lara Jean's best friend
• Emilija Baranac as Gen, Peter's ex-girlfriend and Lara Jean's former best friend in middle school
  • Rhys Fleming as young Gen
• Israel Broussard as Josh, Margot's ex-boyfriend and one of Lara Jean's former loves
  • Christian Michael Cooper as young Josh
• John Corbett as Dr. Covey, Lara Jean's widowed father
• Kelcey Mawema as Emily, a friend of Gen's
• Julia Benson as Ms. Kavinsky, Peter's mother
• Joey Pacheco as Owen, Peter's younger brother
• Edward Kewin as Kenny, one of Lara Jean's love letter recipients
• Jordan Burtchett as John Ambrose, one of Lara Jean's love letter recipients
  • Pavel Piddocke as young John
• June R. Wilde as Joan, a waitress at the diner Lara Jean hangs out in