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\n\tRegretting You<\/a> is a tribute to the transportational properties of cinema; for two very long hours you\u2019ll be wondering what year it is, where you are, and what the hell you\u2019re doing there. Rarely was a film more aptly titled, unless, of course, you\u2019re a fan of novelist Colleen Hoover<\/a>, whose most famous book, It Ends With Us, featured a love triangle between a florist, her high-school crush and a violent neurosurgeon. Regretting You is a similarly ridiculous and overwrought slice of melodrama, leavened with strange moments of comedy that leave you wondering if the whole thing isn\u2019t some kind of bizarre art project, an elaborate, camp parody of the very notion of romantic literature itself.<\/p>\n \n\tThe target audience will presumably be sent whooshing back in time to the summer of 2007 by the Proustian sounds of Vegas rock band The Killers, whose music plays a significant role for two of the main characters. In the opening scenes, we meet the film\u2019s key quartet at a raucous end-of-term celebration. Morgan (Allison Williams<\/a>) is there with her jock boyfriend Chris (Scott Eastwood<\/a>), her party-girl sister Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald<\/a>) and Jenny\u2019s bookish beau Jonah (Dave Franco<\/a>). Chris and Jenny go off to have fun, leaving Morgan and Jonah alone. \u201cHow did we end up with our exact opposites?\u201d says Jonah.<\/p>\n \n\tMorgan, however, has a secret: She is pregnant with Chris\u2019 child, a bombshell that is literally accompanied by fireworks. Fast-forward 17 years, and Morgan is now married to Chris and the mother of a 16-year-old daughter named Clara (Mckenna Grace<\/a>). It\u2019s Jenny\u2019s birthday, and so she comes to visit Morgan with her new baby. Jenny has hooked up with Jonah again after a long, unexplained absence, and his presence is the elephant in the room.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the meantime, Clara is being delayed by a quirky meet-cute with Miller (Mason Thames<\/a>), an aspiring filmmaker and \u2014 despite there being no evidence other than Clara\u2019s word for it \u2014 \u201cthe coolest guy in school.\u201d When she finally gets to the birthday party, Clara is immediately warned off Miller, who lives on a remote farm with his ailing grandpa, partly because, like a character in a \u201960s Shangri-Las\u2019 song, a) he already has a girlfriend but mostly because b) his father sold drugs and went to prison for it. (It\u2019s a wonder that nobody actually says, \u201cWhat do you mean when you say that he came from the wrong side of town?\u201d) Something else concerning Morgan is the fact that Clara is an aspiring actress. \u201cThe world is hard,\u201d she notes, \u201cbut that world is even harder.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tClara is on cloud nine, excitedly texting Aunt Jenny with giant speech bubbles that pop on the screen until the messages suddenly stop. It transpires that Jenny has been killed in a car crash along with Morgan\u2019s husband, who was driving. But why was he driving another woman\u2019s car? Morgan and Jonah are both gut-punched when it becomes clear that their spouses have been carrying on behind their backs for years, a fact that even casts some doubt over Jonah\u2019s paternity. Even though their infidelity is \u2014 how do we put this delicately? \u2014 really, really obvious, Morgan decides that Clara must never know, leaving the poor girl to believe she somehow caused the crash by distracting Jenny. All this and we\u2019re barely 35 minutes in \u2014 Morgan has yet to find out that Jonah, as we have always known from the outset, is secretly in love with her and always has been.<\/p>\n \n\tRELATED: Which Colleen Hoover Books Are Becoming Movies? \u2018Verity,\u2019 \u2018Reminders Of Him\u2019 & \u2018Regretting You\u2019 Will Join \u2018It Ends With Us\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n \n\tTo quote Shakespeare, without wishing to make any further comparisons with a literary giant, the path of true love does not run smooth, and the rest of the film concerns a series of misunderstandings that extend its running time almost to the limits of endurance. Tonally, Regretting You is all over the place, a perfectly serviceable Hallmark movie subjected to unnecessary ironic smarts. In that respect, the entire cast deserve kudos for playing their parts with a straight face, notably Williams as Morgan and Grace as Clara, who seems to have inherited Alicia Silverstone\u2019s entire wardrobe from Clueless (no wonder she has a change of outfit for every day of the week). Indeed, it\u2019s not hard to see either part behind played by Divine in the aftermath of Polyester.<\/p>\n \n\tNeedless to say, Regretting You is hardly what you\u2019d call a critic\u2019s movie, but at the same time it isn\u2019t exactly The Notebook either. As the old saying goes, you won\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry.<\/p>\n \n\tTitle: Regretting You
Distributor: Paramount<\/a>
Release date: October 22, 2025
Director: Josh Boone<\/a>
Screenwriter: Susan McMartin, from the novel by Colleen Hoover
Cast: Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Mason Thames, Dave Franco, Willa Fitzgerald, Scott Eastwood, Clancy Brown
Rating: PG-13
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