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Purple Hearts

Purple Hearts

Romance · Drama · 2022

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.

Movie details

Purple Hearts

2022 Romance · Drama 2h 2m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.7 / 10

67.1K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

32 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

30 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

8.0 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

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.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Purple Hearts?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

Written by

Kyle Jarrow · Liz W. Garcia

Sofia Carson

Sofia Carson

Cassie Salazar

Nicholas Galitzine

Nicholas Galitzine

Luke Marrow

John Harlan Kim

John Harlan Kim

Toby

Chosen Jacobs

Chosen Jacobs

Frankie

Anthony Ippolito

Anthony Ippolito

Johnno

Linden Ashby

Linden Ashby

Jacob Marrow

Kat Cunning

Kat Cunning

Nora

Court is in session

Put Purple Hearts on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.