PREVIEW: Purple Hearts (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Sofia Carson (Feel the Beat), Nicholas Galitzine (The Craft: Legacy), Chosen Jacobs (It), John Harlan Kim (The Little Things), Kat Cunning (Marry Me), Linden Ashby (Wyatt Earp), Anthony Ippolito (You Have the Right to Remain Violent), Scott Deckert (Venom), Sarah Rich (#Like)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (Sneakerella), director; Sofia Carson (film debut), Liz W. Garcia (The Lifeguard) and Kyle Jarrow (Saint Janet), writers; Amy Bear (Mary Shelley), Elysa Koplovitz Dutton (Idiocracy) and Leslie Morgenstein (Everything, Everything), producers; Matt Sakatani Roe (The God Committee), cinematographer; Ishai Setton (Artifact), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Cassie Salazar (Carson), a strong-willed musician working at a bar to make ends meet, has a chance encounter with Luke Morrow, an Army recruit about to be shipped out for duty, and their lives are forever changed…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Singer and former Disney Channel star Sofia Carson co-writes this sweet romance where she also shares some nice on-screen chemistry with rising hunk Nicholas Galitzine.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 29TH JULY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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