Love Hard

Love Hard is an 2021 film. The movie stars Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang. The supporting cast include Darren Barnet, James Saito, Harry Shum Jr., Mikaela Hoover, Matty Finochio, Heather McMahan, Rebecca Staab, and Althea Kaye. The movie was released via Netflix.

Nina Dobrev plays Natalie, a serial online dater out of Los Angeles who writes about her disaster of a dating life for job. Natalie finds a cute guy out of Lake Placid New York and they hit it off. Natalie decides to take it to the extreme and travel out to meat this cute guy for Christmas. When she gets there, Natalie finds out that she has been cat fished. The cute guy, Josh Lin, is not the person in the photos. While at a bar trying to figure things out, Natalie sees the cute guy from Josh's profile, Tag. Natalie wants to impress Tag, but fails and is semi-saved by Josh. While at the vet, Josh and Natalie decide to deal. Natalie plays along as Josh's girlfriend for the holidays and Josh helps Natalie get together with Tag. Will this deals work?

Having just finished The Opening Act the day of, I went striahgt into another Jimmy O. Yang movie. And to be honest, the characters were not that much different. However, Josh Lin was his own unique being too. As for the story, its not crazy different from all the other rom-coms out there. There's a love, a misunderstanding, a reconcilation plot, and the realization you were meant to be together all along. Love Hard is pretty much along those lines. And it was great. I had a blast watching it with my family. And like all Rom-coms, some raunchy items were inserted to get some laughes to get you out of thinking its a serious movie.

Spoiler alert! Don't read this if you have not seen the movie. I like the movie as it is a play on words of the two movies that the protagonist talk about. Die Hard is Natalie's favorite Christmas movie along with her justifcations and Tag's favorite movie is Love Actually. Take one work from each movie to get Love Hard.