Regretting You, Hollywood Film Review, Picks And Piques, Johnson Thomas
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Johnson Thomas
An all too obvious melodrama
Film: Regretting You (2025)
Cast: Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco, Mason Thames, Sam Morelos, Scott Eastwood, Willa Fitzgerald, Clancy Brown
Director: Josh Boone
Rating: * 1/2
Runtime: 116 min.
This schmaltzy romantic drama, a relationship saga that attempts to give your tear ducts a workout, is an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s romantic novel of the same name. Film adaptations of her books Reminders of Him and Verity are also in the make and are scheduled to come out soon.
Adapted for the screen by Susan McMartin, directed by Josh Boone and filmed by cinematographer Tim Orr, this film is a spurious melodrama. There’s a lot of crying to go through here.
The story is about infidelity which gets discovered after a fatal crash. It’s the late 2000s. Morgan (Allison Williams), her boyfriend Chris (Scott Eastwood), her sister Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald) and Jenny’s boyfriend Jonah (Dave Franco), are preparing to graduate high school. Jonah has a secret crush on Morgan while Morgan discovers she is pregnant with Chris’ baby. Cut to 17 years later, Clara (Mckenna Grace), Morgan and Chris’ daughter is now preparing for college while nursing a crush on a classmate, Miller (Mason Thames). Jonah and Jenny are also together and have a son. However, a car accident reveals Chris and Jenny’s secret affair. But since they both perish in the crash Morgan and Jonah are left to deal with the fallout.
The narrative plays to an overly emotional tune. There’s hardly any buildup, so the overwrought drama becomes more and more laughable as it prolongs. This plays like a Hallmark-styled love story that is smaltzy with tame romance, plying tears instead of nuance. The characters are thinly sketched and don’t play true to type.
Morgan and Jonah’s dilemma and process of healing gets intersected by Clara’s romance. The tragedy itself is not focused on much. The loss of lives is considered negligible to the burden of dealing with infidelity. Both the adult couples were obviously living a lie. Morgan and Jonah have to deal with being alive and having to come to terms with their losses. In Hoover’s novel Morgan forbids Clara from seeing Miller. The same happens in the film but it gets forgotten soon enough and the romance continues unrestricted.
The plot developments are rather bland here. Obvious plugins for AMC theaters, Paramount etc also spoil the endearment. The narrative is ploddy and unoriginal. The treatment is cheesy, plain and generic and plays like a bad soap. The sun-dappled North Carolina backdrops look inviting but pedestrian performances, ordinary helming, mushy score and underdeveloped characters make the film a crushing bore.
Johnsont307@gmail.com
Johnson Thomas
An all too obvious melodrama
Film: Regretting You (2025)
Cast: Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco, Mason Thames, Sam Morelos, Scott Eastwood, Willa Fitzgerald, Clancy Brown
Director: Josh Boone
Rating: * 1/2
Runtime: 116 min.
This schmaltzy romantic drama, a relationship saga that attempts to give your tear ducts a workout, is an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s romantic novel of the same name. Film adaptations of her books Reminders of Him and Verity are also in the make and are scheduled to come out soon.
Adapted for the screen by Susan McMartin, directed by Josh Boone and filmed by cinematographer Tim Orr, this film is a spurious melodrama. There’s a lot of crying to go through here.
The story is about infidelity which gets discovered after a fatal crash. It’s the late 2000s. Morgan (Allison Williams), her boyfriend Chris (Scott Eastwood), her sister Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald) and Jenny’s boyfriend Jonah (Dave Franco), are preparing to graduate high school. Jonah has a secret crush on Morgan while Morgan discovers she is pregnant with Chris’ baby. Cut to 17 years later, Clara (Mckenna Grace), Morgan and Chris’ daughter is now preparing for college while nursing a crush on a classmate, Miller (Mason Thames). Jonah and Jenny are also together and have a son. However, a car accident reveals Chris and Jenny’s secret affair. But since they both perish in the crash Morgan and Jonah are left to deal with the fallout.
The narrative plays to an overly emotional tune. There’s hardly any buildup, so the overwrought drama becomes more and more laughable as it prolongs. This plays like a Hallmark-styled love story that is smaltzy with tame romance, plying tears instead of nuance. The characters are thinly sketched and don’t play true to type.
Morgan and Jonah’s dilemma and process of healing gets intersected by Clara’s romance. The tragedy itself is not focused on much. The loss of lives is considered negligible to the burden of dealing with infidelity. Both the adult couples were obviously living a lie. Morgan and Jonah have to deal with being alive and having to come to terms with their losses. In Hoover’s novel Morgan forbids Clara from seeing Miller. The same happens in the film but it gets forgotten soon enough and the romance continues unrestricted.
The plot developments are rather bland here. Obvious plugins for AMC theaters, Paramount etc also spoil the endearment. The narrative is ploddy and unoriginal. The treatment is cheesy, plain and generic and plays like a bad soap. The sun-dappled North Carolina backdrops look inviting but pedestrian performances, ordinary helming, mushy score and underdeveloped characters make the film a crushing bore.
Johnsont307@gmail.com
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