Synopsis
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
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Cast
- Sofia CarsonCassie Salazar
- Nicholas GalitzineLuke Marrow
- John Harlan KimToby
- Chosen JacobsFrankie
- Anthony IppolitoJohnno
- Linden AshbyJacob Marrow
- Kat CunningNora
- Nicholas DuvernayArmando
- Scott DeckertJacob Marrow Jr
- Kendall ChappellMila
Recommendations
- 50
IndieWire
This super-cheap Netflix Original is so determined to satisfy the algorithm that it would lack any coherent sense of self if not for the fact that it was chiefly designed as a star vehicle for Disney Channel grad Sofia Carson — but there’s something rather stubbornly honest about the heartbeat of desperation that thrums below its Walmart veneer. - 40
NME
Purple Hearts is crushingly predictable and never quite rings true, but it’s not completely hopeless. - 40
Screen Rant
It is easy to see the potential in the first act, but Purple Hearts leans too much into over-sentimentality, with narrative tricks designed to trigger tears and subdue thinking. - 30
The New York Times
The film wallows in contrived plots and subplots, made worse by the dearth of chemistry between the two leads. - 30
Variety
This glossy but gloopy Netflix original is primarily out to serve its leading lady’s legions of fans, some of them perhaps young enough not to have seen it all before. - 16
The A.V. Club
Purple Hearts would be a lot more interesting if it interrogated the specific moments of weakness that attract Cassie to Luke, but that’s far too complex an idea to explore in this kiddie pool of sentimentality.
