Love Hard is a 2021 American romantic comedy film directed by Hernán Jiménez and written by Danny Mackey and Rebecca Ewing. The film, which stars Nina Dobrev, Jimmy O. Yang, Darren Barnet, Matty Finochio, James Saito and Harry Shum Jr. is about a young woman who travels to her online crush’s hometown for Christmas, but discovers she’s been catfished.
Love Hard was produced by Wonderland Sound and Vision, and filmed in Vancouver from October to November 2020. The film was released by Netflix on November 5, 2021.
Natalie Bauer (Nina Dobrev), a dating column writer based in Los Angeles, falls in love with a man named Josh Lin on a dating app and travels to his East Coast hometown to surprise him for Christmas. However, she discovers that she has been catfished, and Josh is really a nerdy man (Jimmy O. Yang). Her crush, Tag Abbott (Darren Barnet), actually does live in the same town, and Josh offers to set them up if she pretends to be his girlfriend for the holidays.
