Purple Hearts

If you're a fan of Nicholas Sparks and Jojo Moyes's work, then Purple Hearts is just the movie for you. The romantic drama will take you on an emotional journey ...

After they stop kissing, Luke gives Cassie his ring and tells her to take good care of it before he walks off to get in a van. Luke arrives on base to serve his sentence and says his goodbyes to his family as Cassie pulls up. As Cassie sings, she begins to have flashbacks of all the good times she and Luke shared. As she’s driving to her destination, she calls Luke. At this moment, viewers realize Cassie is headed to meet with Luke, but Luke isn’t picking up the phone. Then, there are cuts between Cassie and her band performing at the Hollywood Bowl and Luke getting his stuff ready to serve his sentence. He also tells Cassie that Luke’s trial will be in a few weeks and that the police will soon question her about her role in the marriage scheme.

A young singer's sham marriage to a Marine grows into something deeper in the Nicholas Sparks-esque 'Purple Hearts,' starring Sofia Carson.

She scoffs, but then she succumbs: A spouse, in this watchable but disappointingly old-fashioned wisp of a film, is just a soulmate you haven’t met yet. Politically, meanwhile, “Purple Hearts” stays stringently loyal to all sides, cheering Cassie on in her sporadic right-on rants but also offering a gilded, ennobling portrait of Marine duty — even when heavily telegraphed tragedy strikes in action, and Luke returns to California a broken man. (Neil Diamond purists should consider themselves warned.) Away from the microphone, she’s a sparky enough presence, not heavily taxed by a character, Cassie, whose smattering of tattoos and progressive political credentials — Black Lives Matter and queer-rights flags hang from the balcony of her improbably spacious walk-up apartment in Oceanside — do the bare minimum to distinguish her from the archetypical Nicholas Sparks-style romantic heroine.

“Purple Hearts” follows the story of Cassie, played by “Descendants” actress Sofia Carson, an aspiring singer working several jobs just to stay alive and support her dreams. Newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes just six months ago, she struggles to ...

I found the diabetes elements to be more realistic than some elements of the love story, which is really, really saying something. Type 1 diabetes is integral to the “Purple Hearts” story. No two people live with diabetes in the same way. This scene was a fantastic way to educate and spread awareness of the financial burdens of type 1 diabetes. Many people with chronic illness in the U.S. choose to pursue traditional full-time jobs due to the pressure of securing health insurance benefits, but it’s not the only way people with diabetes choose to live or should have to live. “Purple Hearts” shows this career dilemma that many people with diabetes face. Every single integration of type 1 diabetes was effective. Cassie lives up to that summarization and then some. Despite explaining how dangerous it is for her to go without her insulin for that long, there’s nothing the pharmacist can do. “Purple Hearts” follows the story of Cassie, played by “Descendants” actress Sofia Carson, an aspiring singer working several jobs just to stay alive and support her dreams. When her childhood friend and current Marine, Frankie, rejects her proposal for marriage to receive these benefits, she finds an uncommon partner in Luke—also a Marine, but someone she detests. Situations like this happen to people with all types of diabetes way too often.

Disney Channel alum and pop star Sofia Carson proves her talent in an overwrought Netflix romance about a military marriage of convenience.

Director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (“Aquamarine”) has a proven knack for pushing YA audiences into unexpected places, but her clumsy handling of this film’s soapier excesses is made all the more frustrating because of the easy spark she’s able to create between Luke and Cassie. These kids may not be Bogie and Bacall, but there’s a stronger fizz to their screen chemistry than you would expect from a glorified commercial for Carson’s talent — largely because Carson is such a spiky, electric presence. Before they crush “Purple Hearts” to death under the weight of their own contrivances, the overwrought subplots that pump attention away from the love story at the center of the film are justified by the script’s need to support Cassie’s music (Carson herself is one of the credited writers, alongside Liz W. Garcia and Kyle Jarrow). Both Luke and Cassie want to live in a country that will let them enjoy that. Second-generation immigrant Cassie Salazar (Carson) is a spunky waitress at a SoCal bar where she leads her band in pop-punk covers of “Sweet Caroline” and Portgual, the Man’s “Feel It Still” and imagines becoming the next Olivia Rodrigo while serving drinks to handsy soldiers from the local military base. No, we need tragic deaths, an IED explosion, home invasions, severe daddy issues, a drug shakedown in a parking garage, one seriously challenging set of stairs, and a host of other impediments that distract from the core romance. Side effects may include eye-rolling, exhaustion, and an intense desire to google whether “stolen valor” applies to faking a marriage in order to squeeze more cash out of the U.S. military (do not use if allergic to “Purple Hearts”).

WHAT IS PURPLE HEARTS ABOUT? PURPLE HEARTS PLOT SUMMARY: Cassie (played by singer Sofia Carson) is an aspiring singer-songwriter who spends her days waitressing ...

Against his attorney’s advice, Luke makes a statement to the court, in which he claims that he tricked Cassie into marrying him, that she didn’t know it was against the law, and takes all of the blame. Luke confesses he is a former addict, and he and Cassie fight. Cassie’s band has taken off big time, and they play a gig opening for Florence and the Machine. Cassies sings an emotional love song for Luke, and then rushes off to meet Luke before he begins his military prison sentence. Meanwhile, Luke and Cassie are starting to fall in love for real… Meanwhile, Luke (Nicholas Galitzine), is a Marine and former drug addict who needs money, fast, in order to pay off past debts to his dealer. So do Cassie and Luke get together in Purple Hearts? If you want to know what you’re getting into ahead of time, read on for Decider’s breakdown of the Purple Hearts plot summary and the Purple Hearts ending, explained.

Sofia Carson talks to PEOPLE about her role in Netflix's new film Purple Hearts, which is available to stream now.

"I was also very lucky that I was older when everything changed, and I was an adult. Much like their characters in the film, Carson says she and Nicholas Galitzine, who plays Luke, had to get to know each other pretty quickly. "But when a tragedy sends him home earlier than expected, Cassie and Luke are unprepared to feign a marriage face-to-face, in front of family and friends," the synopsis adds. "And this one in particular went kind of a step further, because I've always been in love with storytelling, and to be a part of storytelling from every aspect, from behind the scenes as producer to physical storytelling as an actress to storytelling through song, was incredibly fulfilling." The day after, he got deployed to Iraq. And then the next day was the love scene in the motel. "For a while, their secret plan works and they start to develop a semblance of a friendship.

The love story in Purple Hearts really starts “kind of backwards and inside out,” just as the fake dating/pretend relationship trope demands, because Cassie and ...

Carson also shared that there was originally another sex scene in the script, which was changed to a soft moment with Cassie and Luke in bed. Carson explained how this came to be and shared that she really fought for Cassie and Luke’s first scene in the motel, the movie’s one sex scene to be “a scene of complete and utter intimacy and vulnerability,” rather than just something physical. But the movie is more than its central trope thanks to a spirited, emotional performance by its leads, Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine, and a great soundtrack that has at least one song that is sure to get stuck in your head for weeks.

Sofia Carson, a former Disney star, expands into executive producing and writing songs for her new project, Netflix's 'Purple Hearts.'

“Getting to craft original songs with her and some of my Facet Publishing team that held up mirrors to the emotions of this movie was an honor.” With Cassie’s voice unlocked, Carson and Tranter would go on to complete three more original songs for the soundtrack within a week, including “Come Back Home” which is first introduced in a pivotal moment of the movie and was released earlier this month to tease the project. “I was so lucky that I got to live with Cassie, with their love story, with the script for four years.” Having had the experience of executive producing, she doesn’t want to go back. Carson says that the idea of writing songs for a soundtrack, especially from someone else’s view and a story not her own, was daunting. It was a combination of rage, frustration, and deep passion. “I was most definitely writing from Cassie’s point of view,” Carson says. And it kind of guided us for the rest of the soundtrack.” songs that came from my heart, not someone else’s,” she says. While Cassie and Luke’s “Will they/Won’t they?” storyline is not new, these characters face a much more complicated journey. “It’s more than just director and actor, but partners.” “I remember it vividly,” Carson, 29, says.

That is the premise of Netflix's “Purple Hearts,” which stars Sofia Carson as Cassie Salazar and Nicholas Galitzine as Luke Morrow.

The storyline is thin, and the military premise is cliché, but, frankly, the chemistry between Galitzine and Carson is off the charts. As you can imagine, eventually the Marine Corps finds out about the sham, Luke loses everything, and he has to serve out a prison sentence. She first propositions a lifelong friend-turned-Marine to engage in the fraudulent marriage, but he turns her down because he already has a girlfriend of his own. The movie is based on a novel by Tess Wakefield, and is something of a soap opera-esque take on a military marriage entered into for the benefits. Luke, on the other hand, is an addict in recovery. Get married after three brief conversations the day before he ships off to Iraq and split the money.

Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine star in the Netflix romance Purple Hearts and this is what you need to know before watching.

Her life seems to be going just ok until she is diagnosed with Diabetes. Her job as a bartender can't foot the medical bills she's now strapped with, and she plots a way to get the health insurance needed to dig her out of this hole. Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum will be the director of the film. She approaches her friend Frankie, a military officer for a proposed marriage to help her with the insurance needed to cover her bills. In a society where medical insurance is polarizing and politicized, Netflix's upcoming romance Purple Hearts brings a human touch to the conversation around the astronomical cost of medical care, and the problems with veterans’ benefits. Nicholas Galitzine stars as Luke, a U.S. Marine who accepts to marry Cassie just to provide her with the health insurance she badly needs. But when tragedy strikes, the line between real and pretend begins to blur. Purple Hearts' soundtrack is co-written and performed by lead actress Sofia Carson. "Come Back Home," one of the songs Carson wrote for the film will be available upon the film's release. Carson is a singer who has been involved in soundtracks for a few movies. There are scenes of the horrors of war and Luke coming home incapacitated in some way. The story follows the life of an upcoming singer-songwriter who somehow gets into a marriage of convenience to help with her overwhelming medical bills. Elysa Koplovitz Dutton and Leslie Morgenstein produced the film for Alloy Entertainment. Find out more about this upcoming romantic drama, From the plot to streaming details, here's everything you need to know about Purple Heats. Purple Heart - a product of Netflix's drive to swell its repertoire of Young Adult content is based on Tess Wakefield’s novel of the same name.