
Paper Heart
2009·Comedy·1h 28m
7.0
★

Paper Heart follows Nick and Charlyne on a cross-country journey to document what exactly "love" is. Interviewing ministers, happily married couples, chemists, romance novelists, divorce lawyers, a group of children and more, the determined young girl attempts to find definition and perhaps even experience the mysterious emotion.
Directed by Nicholas Jasenovec
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Cast

Lo Mutuc
Charlyne Yi

Michael Cera
Michael Cera

Jake Johnson
Nicholas Jasenovec

Demetri Martin
Demetri Martin

Given Sharp
Given Sharp

Martin Starr
Martin Starr

Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen

Derek Waters
Derek Waters

Matthew Bass
Matthew Bass

David Chandler
David Chandler
Crew

Lo Mutuc
Writer

Michael Cera
Original Music Composer

Lo Mutuc
Original Music Composer

Jay Hunter
Director of Photography

Lo Mutuc
Executive Producer
Popular Reviews
40 reviews
liliana
6.0★ · 01/04/26

charlyne yi and michael cera you two are so awkward and loveable and that’s pretty much how i would sum up this movie. it’s genuinely such a cute movie i can’t lie
charlyne yi and michael cera you two are so awkward and loveable and that’s pretty much how i would sum up this movie. it’s genuinely such a cute movie i can’t lie
James
6.0★ · 11/16/25

Very cute. Laughed way too hard at Charlyne’s Michael Cera impression at the end. Quite the wholesome flick
Very cute. Laughed way too hard at Charlyne’s Michael Cera impression at the end. Quite the wholesome flick
sewn
8.0★ · 09/23/25

AWWWWWWW
AWWWWWWW
Canyon
8.1★ · 06/27/25

“The world just looked better. I remember The leaves looked brighter. I was driving back to college and I thought oh my god, the world just looks wonderful” … thank you random lady for verbalizing the exact feeling I was describing to Hannah two days ago
I’ve also been obsessed with this soundtrack for nearly a decade now and have just now gotten around to watching the movie???
I’ve also been obsessed with this soundtrack for nearly a decade now and have just now gotten around to watching the movie???
“The world just looked better. I remember The leaves looked brighter. I was driving back to college and I thought oh my god, the world just looks wonderful” … thank you random lady for verbalizing the exact feeling I was describing to Hannah two days ago
I’ve also been obsessed with this soundtrack for nearly a decade now and have just now gotten around to watching the movie???
I’ve also been obsessed with this soundtrack for nearly a decade now and have just now gotten around to watching the movie???
Grilliam
8.0★ · 04/13/25

The format is just too weird to work that well. It's a real documentary at its heart, but the fictional story surrounding it, while compelling, throws things off. Charlyne is incredibly likable and I did become invested in her journey, and the acted scenes with Cera are well done, but the two parts don't mix well. I'd have gladly watched just the documentary about Charlyne learning about love and talking about her own feelings or watched a quirky romantic-comedy starring Charlyne and Cera, but it's confusing to combine them. It really makes the ending hard to do and what we get does match the goofiness, but lands flat. Really, Charlyne's personality does a lot of the hard work in keeping this whole thing together (she may have landed on my celebrity crush list), but having a good host doesn't make a game show work.
The format is just too weird to work that well. It's a real documentary at its heart, but the fictional story surrounding it, while compelling, throws things off. Charlyne is incredibly likable and I did become invested in her journey, and the acted scenes with Cera are well done, but the two parts don't mix well. I'd have gladly watched just the documentary about Charlyne learning about love and talking about her own feelings or watched a quirky romantic-comedy starring Charlyne and Cera, but it's confusing to combine them. It really makes the ending hard to do and what we get does match the goofiness, but lands flat. Really, Charlyne's personality does a lot of the hard work in keeping this whole thing together (she may have landed on my celebrity crush list), but having a good host doesn't make a game show work.