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Love Hard (2021)

★ 6.9 · 1,603 ratings on TMDB

A romantic comedy about the lies we tell for love.

Love Hard poster★ 6.9

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.

DirectorHernán Jiménez
CastDarren Barnet, Fletcher Donovan, Harry Shum Jr., Heather McMahan, James Saito, Jimmy O. Yang
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Love Hard keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Shared director or cast.

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