Netflix’s Purple Hearts ranks among the streamer’s most successful original romances, adapting Tess Wakefield’s novel of the same name. The movie follows Cassie (Sofia Carson), a struggling musician recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes who can’t keep up with the cost of her insulin, and Luke (Nicholas Galitzine), a Marine working to pay off a dangerous debt to his old drug dealer. Desperate, the two strike a marriage of convenience to unlock Luke’s military spousal benefits, a scheme that gets far more complicated once Luke deploys overseas and the arrangement starts to feel like a real relationship.

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