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- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 44 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 44 m
Summary An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for the holidays, only to discover that she's been catfished. This lighthearted romantic comedy chronicles her attempt to reel in love.
Directed By: Hernán Jiménez
Written By: Daniel Mackey, Rebecca Ewing
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 44 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 44 m
Love Hard
42
7.3
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Summary An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for the holidays, only to discover that she's been catfished. This lighthearted romantic comedy chronicles her attempt to reel in love.
Directed By: Hernán Jiménez
Written By: Daniel Mackey, Rebecca Ewing
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
42
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
38% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
42
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
38% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
With dazzling lead performances from Jimmy O. Yang and Nina Dobrev, Love Hard will surely be a Christmas romantic comedy worth revisiting every year.
Love Hard isn’t reinventing the wheel, but Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang are adorable to watch in this feel-good Christmas rom-com.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 User Ratings
7.3
72% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
16% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
12% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 User Ratings
7.3
72% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
16% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
12% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
An inoffensive time-filler that’s hard to love but easy to like.
In presenting a female character who is attractive, but bereft of substance, the movie subverts its own premise.
It’s a Hallmark Channel holiday movie on a Netflix budget. The characters are bland, the performances not much better and the writing almost instantly awful — tin-eared, clumsy ESL grammar and usage, the works.
Like most of Netflix’s seasonal assembly line of yuletide fare, “Love Hard” is both too well-cast for the Hallmark Channel and too half-assed for movie theaters. It’s likewise adrift between rom-com nostalgia, reckoning with the anxieties of dating in the digital age, and simply hitting enough data points to give the algorithm what it wants for Christmas.
Some moments are sweeter than others, but overall, this cookie cutter rom-com has nothing more or less than what its subgenre demands.
It's a take on the classic Cyrano story, but instead of a big ugly nose deformity our hero is too Chinese. Kind of creepy and racist once you see it. Half Asian dude is super sexy, but Jimmy Yang is gross. Girl finally admits he has superb character so his awful disability can be overlooked.
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I would've enjoyed this movie in my teenage years. When l didn't mind cheesy, easily predictable, cringy **** if you're going to take a dig at 'The Notebook' at least make your storyline and plot better. The Notebook was made in 2004 and is still better than this movie, in my opinion. Otherwise, it's not bad. Pretty average or below average.
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I watched Love Hard on January 2 while having a pretty bad day after enjoying some magic salad. Visually this movie is fine - the shot selection, composition, lighting - it's all adequate. The performances are good enough to keep your attention and Harry Shum Jr. playing the more successful narcissistic younger brother was a standout for me. The screenplay itself, though, is terrible. It has literally every cliche you could imagine, the jokes rarely land, the characters are meh and I'm not sure there is a single original idea in this film. There's also a lot of voice lines that were clearly added awkwardly in post to fix plot holes or make plot points more obvious. The abysmal screenplay combined with the fact that the references that felt targeted at me specifically and the fact the soundtrack seemed like it was stolen from my playlist was honestly kind of alienating. It felt like watching an algorithmically generated movie targeted at me specifically. Or at least nerdy, non-white males born between 1990 and 1999 that like Die Hard and used to listen to Wolfmother.
The terrible screenplay and oddly personal references sprinkled throughout this combined with my emotional state made Love Hard fill me with an almost eldritch horror. This movie was transcendentally bad. The effects of the magic salad and terribleness of the screenplay short circuited my brain and made for a trippier experience than Enter the Void. The experience of watching it was akin to the DMT fueled hallucinations I expect to experience as I shuffle off this mortal coil. Some movies feel like watching a car crash. Love Hard felt like being in a car crash - time slowed and every detail seemed hyper real. I have not seen the face of God but I can only assume the experience is akin to what I went through. Annoyingly, despite all its phoniness this movie still managed to elicit an emotional response from me, but it was completely unearned. Love Hard is like emotional McDonalds. It makes your brain produce all the chemicals that eating delicious food does but part of you will always know that it's actually slowly poisoning you. I don't regret watching this, but that has more to do with the fact that this movie was so bad it made me experience ego death, and I suspect most people that watch this movie won't have that experience. As a movie, I give love hard a 3/10, as a trigger for unlocking new planes of consciousness I did not previously know existed it gets a 9/10.
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bad
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.
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Production Company
Wonderland Sound and Vision
Release Date Nov 5, 2021
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating TV-MA
Tagline A romantic comedy about the lies we tell for love.
Awards
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
The CAFTCAD awards
• 1 Nomination
