Latest from best selling self-publishing book phenomenon Colleen Hoover is Regretting You and it’s landed itself a decent cast with Allison Williams (M3GAN), McKenna Grace (Ghostbusters Frozen Empire), Dave Franco (Together), and Mason Thames (the Black Phone).
With a brief prologue scenes where what looks like a slightly digitally de-aged Morgan (Williams), Jonah (Franco) with their respective on screen partners Chris (Scott Eastwood) and Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald) where Morgan discovers she is pregnant. Fast forward 17 years later and the couples are married with 17 year old daughter Clara ( McKenna Grace) living in a luxury house gifted to them by Chris’ parents and frequent visitors are best friend Jenny with Jonah and their baby who they dump on them as his daily babysitter. And in the course of the film that baby gets passed around more times than Meghan Markle at a yacht party.
But the idyllic existence shortly comes to crashing end with a tragedy followed by a revelation that sees Clara running off into the arms of the school handsome hunk and supposed wrong side of the tracks bad boy Miller (Mason Thames). Now as much as we like Thames the film has toned down the ‘bad boy ‘ to zero as here is as threatening as Alan Carr at a MMA fight. So its from here we have two storylines competing with Clara & Miller’s romance and Morgan’s inner turmoil finding comfort in bottles of white wine.
Regretting You very much plays like a YA daytime soap opera with equally underdeveloped characters ( Clara’s school friend is there solely for little more than light laughs) with on occasion some unintentional laugh out loud moments and a running (weak) gag about pizza seems appropriate in a film which has more than its fair share of extra cheese.
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Here’s the Regretting You trailer….
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