“The Sun Is Also A Star” (** out of four) was a plodding adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s novel about a hopeless romantic (Charles Melton) who is at a personal crossroads in life and falls in love with a young woman (Yara Shahidi) and tries to convince her to fall in love with him within 24 hours even though her and her family are about to be departed. Earnest but colorless story has a few effective moments in its final third but loses its momentum by going on too long. Shahidi’s strong performance helps to some extent and John Leguizamo has a good supporting turn as an unscrupulous attorney.