‘2 Hearts’

The hospital gurney that shows up mere minutes into “2 Hearts,” — carrying one of its four protagonists and trailing a wake of weepy loved ones behind it — telegraphs that the story we’re about to see is a medical tear-jerker.

A voice- over delivered by that patient, a young man named Chris (Jacob Elordi), admits as much. “I’m getting ahead of myself,” Chris tells us, before backing up to deliver two parallel love stories: his own, and that of another, much older man, Jorge (Adan Canto).

Based on a true story, “2 Hearts” jumps back and forth in time between Chris’s meetcute, as a dumb but hunky college freshman, with a fellow student named Sam (Tiera Skovbye), and the romance between Jorge, the wealthy scion of a Cuban distiller, and Leslie (Radha Mitchell), a flight attendant he sweeps off her feet. Neither of these relationship narratives is especially engaging.

Chris and Sam bond while serving on a collegiate safety patrol; Jorge and Leslie fall in

love during a romantic weekend getaway to an expensive beachside hotel. Both stories feel pretty plastic, like TV commercials for breath-freshener or tooth- whitener. They’re sweet and superficial.

But they’re not meant to be the meat of the movie, whose two threads start to converge— in expected ways— pretty quickly.

Inspired by the life of Jorge Bacardi of the Cuban rum dynasty and what has been described as a “miracle” he experienced in 2008, the film. It’s wholesome but starchy fare: that feels less like a movie than a marketing vehicle for the power of divine providence.