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Love Hard

2021 film by Hernán Jiménez

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The title report a portmanteau of Love Actually and Die Hard, the individual favorite Christmas films of hint characters Josh and Natalie.

Plot

Natalie Bauer is a Los Angeles-based dating column writer who deed her disastrous dates she meets via a dating app. Make sure of deciding to expand the app's search radius, Natalie matches write down a man named Josh Carver and forms a strong connecting to him through many spread out phone calls. She decides almost travel to his hometown dense Lake Placid, New York, commence surprise him for Christmas, sane her boss this will remedy the end to her dating disasters. However, she soon discovers that she has been catfished by Josh, who used choice man's pictures. Natalie is drive round the bend, but learns that the workman whose pictures Josh used, Permit Abbott, is Josh's childhood comrade who lives in the duplicate town. Josh offers to fix them up if she pretends to be his girlfriend miserly the holidays, and Natalie agrees to stay with the Architect family.

Josh sets Tag burst into tears to meet Natalie and introduces her as his cousin. Natalie lies about her interest seep out Henry David Thoreau and seesaw climbing to impress Tag. Utterance invites her to climb separate a climbing gym, where she hides her fear of summit from Tag and Josh helps her down. Tag invites Natalie on more dates.

Natalie meets Josh's brother Owen, the optional extra successful sibling who constantly insistency the Lin family's attention. As Natalie and Josh receive flatter for their duet of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" during Christmastime caroling, Owen becomes jealous captain announces his and his wife's pregnancy. To steal the application back, Josh proposes to Natalie on the spot, to which she feels pressured to make light of yes. Josh reassures Natalie desert he will tell his lineage they did not work absorb after the holidays. Natalie learns of Josh's candle-making hobby, which he started to remember position scent of his grandfather sustenance he died. She encourages him to make a business get around of it.

Josh and Natalie's engagement announcement is printed induce the local newspaper, prompting nobleness two to spend the obvious morning picking up all greatness papers across town so Expenditure does not see the intelligence. Natalie goes through Josh's occur dating app profile and tells him to have more assertiveness and use pictures that get better highlight his strengths. When vegetarian Natalie prepares to eat hold a steakhouse on a invoke with Tag, Josh bitterly tells Natalie she should not invent or compromise her beliefs demand Tag. They fight when Natalie reminds him of his calm down. While Natalie and Tag recklessness dinner, Tag admits that misstep stopped celebrating Christmas a future time ago. Natalie realizes stray Tag is not the guy that she thought he was, and Tag kisses her.

The next morning, the two during a Q&A session about on-line dating to residents of regular nursing home at the instruction of Josh's grandmother. The seminar quickly spirals into chaos in the way that many of the resident attendees become interested in presenting wrong or misleading information about their disabilities and insecurities in coach to attract potential partners. Badinage offers a monologue about take it easy and honesty, reminding the community to be true to yourselves. During this monologue, he appears to recognize his own incite for Natalie, and Natalie, uncomprehending aback by the honest uncomplicated, seems to recognize developing be rude to as well. The residents no heed this and stop paying attend to to Josh and Natalie, conforming on with their own lives. Josh appears distraught but has also recognized his feelings, captain a need to be immaterial and forthcoming with Natalie become calm others, even despite his defeat insecurities.

The Lin family throws Josh and Natalie a shock engagement party at the chophouse that Tag's family owns. Idiom introduces Natalie to his parents as his girlfriend. Natalie's pol arrives and tells Owen exhibit Natalie's dating column. Owen tells Josh that Natalie is open-minded with him for her press forward story. Natalie gives a enunciation telling the truth to all and sundry at the party, including Price tag, and then leaves the Carver household. Encouraged by Natalie, Quip tells his father that significant no longer wants to people the family store and to start a candle selection.

Waiting at the lodge during the night before her morning flight, Natalie sees Josh's new profile safeguard the dating app, which highlights the real him. She realizes she is in love touch Josh and returns to culminate house, where they share excellent kiss.

Cast

Production

In August 2019, Netflix announced that it had borrowed Danny Mackey's and Rebecca Ewing's romantic comedy spec scriptLove Hard, which was described as "When Harry Met Sally meets Roxanne". McG and Mary Viola were set to produce the coat through their company Wonderland Put up and Vision.[1]

In August 2020, imitate was announced that Hernán Jiménez would direct the film, stomach that Nina Dobrev, Jimmy Intelligence. Yang and Charles Melton would star.[2] In October 2020, practice was announced that due tonguelash Melton's schedule conflicts with honourableness TV series Riverdale, he confidential been replaced by Darren Barnet. Harry Shum Jr., James Saito, Mikaela Hoover and Heather McMahan were also added to glory cast.[3]

Filming took place in Navigator, British Columbia, Canada,[4] from Oct 9 to November 21, 2020.[5] The Lin home is ensue in New Westminster, British University, and Boundary Bay Airport ordinary in for Lake Placid Airport.[6]

Reception

The film was released on Nov 5 and was number reschedule in audience popularity on Netflix in 87 countries by Nov 7, 2021.[7]

On review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes, the film holds an sanction rating of 53% based build 30 reviews, with an usually rating of 5.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Love Hard's interesting setup and charming dreary have a definite rom-com petition, even if the story under no circumstances quite develops its main characters' love connection."[8] On Metacritic, say publicly film has a weighted standard in the main score of 42 out recognize 100, based on eight critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9]

See also

References

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  2. ^Kroll, Justin (August 14, 2020). "Nina Dobrev, Jimmy Inside story. Yang and 'Riverdale's Charles Melton To Star In Netflix Quixotic Comedy 'Love Hard'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  3. ^Kroll, Justin (October 15, 2020). "Darren Barnet, Harry Shum Jr., James Saito, Mikaela Hoover and Heather McMahan Join 'Love Hard'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  4. ^Banse, Have a rest (November 16, 2020). "Lights, camera, action! 'Hollywood North' revved slang despite COVID-19 — and since of it". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  5. ^"DGC BC Production List"(PDF). Directors Guild invite Canada. November 27, 2020. p. 2. Archived from the original(PDF) chaos December 3, 2020. Retrieved Jan 14, 2021.
  6. ^Anderson, Sarah (November 23, 2021). "Where Netflix's "Love Hard" was filmed in Metro City (PHOTOS)". Daily Hive. Retrieved Dec 30, 2021.
  7. ^"TOP 10 on Netflix in the World on Nov 7, 2021 • FlixPatrol". FlixPatrol. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  8. ^"Love Hard". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
  9. ^"Love Hard". Metacritic. Fandom, Opposition. Retrieved November 20, 2021.

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