Regretting You (12A)
Cast: Allison Williams, Willa Fitzgerald, Dave Franco, Scott Eastwood, Mason Thames, Mckenna GraceGenre: Drama
Author(s): Susan McMartin
Director: Josh Boone
Release Date: 24/10/2025
Running Time: 116mins
Country: US
Year: 2025
Morgan Grant has devoted her life to raising 16-year-old daughter Clara and supporting her doctor husband Chris, who works at a local hospital where her younger sister Jenny is a nurse. Morgan's carefully ordered life is shattered when Chris dies in a car accident and the other passenger in the car turns out to be Jenny. The circumstances of the accident confirm Chris was having an affair with Jenny, which devastates Morgan and Jenny's husband Jonah.
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Regretting You (12A) Film Review from LondonNet
I’m an eternally hopeful romantic and a sucker for a well-written thwarted romance (While You Were Sleeping is a genre masterpiece and I won’t hear anything to the contrary.) Josh Boone’s soppy drama, set in motion by a tragic car accident, should be my catnip. Alas, this glossy tearjerker from the director of The Fault In Our Stars is a tonally inconsistent wish-fulfilment fantasy that doesn’t lay the emotional groundwork to earn its various deluges of on-screen tears…
Adapted by screenwriter Susan McMartin from the book by Colleen Hoover, author of It Ends With Us, Regretting You heals the broken hearts of a grief-stricken mother and daughter by gifting the characters dreamily adoring and sensitive suitors, who are prone to gushing outbursts like, “There’s no version of you that’s boring”. Flashbacks to childhood, which cast Allison Williams, Dave Franco, Scott Eastwood and Willa Fitzgerald as their awkward teenage selves, are oddly disconcerting and confirm there must be something in the water when characters barely age a day between two narrative timelines, 17 years apart. Declarations of love are blurted, and reciprocated, with a casualness that diminishes the importance of these words and dilutes the parallel journeys of mother and daughter, who bond over mood boards festooned with handwritten words of self-empowerment.
Morgan Grant (Williams) has devoted her life to raising 16-year-old daughter Clara (Mckenna Grace) and supporting her doctor husband Chris (Eastwood), who works at a local hospital where her younger sister Jenny (Fitzgerald) is a nurse. Morgan’s carefully ordered life is shattered when Chris dies in a car accident and the other passenger in the car turns out to be Jenny. The circumstances of the accident confirm Chris was having an affair with Jenny, which devastates Morgan and Jenny’s husband Jonah (Franco). Grieving spouses cling to each other for support and agree to conceal the truth about the accident from Clara so her memories of her father and aunt are unsullied by the infidelity.
The angry teenager processes her emotions with the help of quirky best friend Lexie (Sam Morelos) and her crush, Miller (Mason Thames), who already has a girlfriend and is putting his dreams of film school on hold to take care of his terminally ill grandfather (Clancy Brown). While Morgan and Jonah navigate their blatantly obvious feelings for each other, kindled in childhood, Clara and Miller follow suit same. Like mother, like daughter.
Regretting You doesn’t deviate from heavily signposted paths for Morgan and Clara, introducing instances of mild conflict to pad out the running time. Williams and Grace are a likeable double-act and both actors work hard to add flesh to bare-bones characters in crisis. Comical interludes are cute but jar when juxtaposed with gut-wrenching grief and betrayal.
– Sarah Lee
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