Synopsis
An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for Christmas, only to discover that she's been catfished. But the object of her affection actually lives in the same town, and the guy who duped her offers to set them up if she pretends to be his own girlfriend for the holidays.
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Cast
- Nina DobrevNatalie Bauer
- Jimmy O. YangJosh Lin
- Darren BarnetTag
- James SaitoBob Lin
- Rebecca StaabBarb Lin
- Harry Shum Jr.Owen Lin
- Mikaela HooverChelsea Lin
- Matty FinochioLee
- Heather McMahanKerry
- Fletcher DonovanEric
Recommendations
- 80
Screen Rant
With dazzling lead performances from Jimmy O. Yang and Nina Dobrev, Love Hard will surely be a Christmas romantic comedy worth revisiting every year. - 70
IGN
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. - 60
The Guardian
An inoffensive time-filler that’s hard to love but easy to like. - 40
The New York Times
In presenting a female character who is attractive, but bereft of substance, the movie subverts its own premise. - 40
Variety
With its prevailing sentiments on dating in the digital age feeling more than a decade old, and themes centered on honesty and shallowness ringing hollow, this feature is fairly forgettable. - 33
IndieWire
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. - 25
RogerEbert.com
Some moments are sweeter than others, but overall, this cookie cutter rom-com has nothing more or less than what its subgenre demands.
